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- Bab'Aziz - The Prince who Cont...
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Saturday, February 21 at 7:30pm - Azur and Asmar: The Princes's ...
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Saturday, February 21 at 2:00pm - Namibia: The Struggle for Libe...
Hollywood Theater
Friday, February 20 at 7:00pm - Cuba: An African Odyssey
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Thursday, February 19 at 7:30pm - StudentFest Presents: Bab'Aziz...
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Thursday, February 19 at 2:30pm - StudentFest Presents: Nightjohn
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Thursday, February 19 at 12:00pm - Abeni
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Saturday, February 14 at 7:30pm - Clouds over Conakry
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Friday, February 13 at 7:30pm - Death of Two Sons
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Thursday, February 12 at 7:30pm - Abeni
PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Thursday, February 12 at 2:00pm
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- Festival Highlights 10:32pm Jan 23
- Welcome to the 19th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 10:30pm Jan 23
Cascade Festival of African Films
CFAF Committee member Wendy Behrend created this excellent video about the festival, and we wanted to share it with you. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAXgF3so4
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This is a PSA trailer made for the Cascade Festival of African Films, held every Feb/March on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus in Portland, Oregon. It was done for a final project in an intro to video editing class in PCC's multimedia department -teacher Erik Fauske
Cascade Festival of African Films Cuba: An African Odyssey has been rescheduled!!! The re-screening will be Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 at PCC Cascade. The problem with the DVD has been corrected. We hope to see you there!
Cascade Festival of African Films What a great first weekend! I think the count is 910 attendees so far :) Zaïna was incredible. I wish we had a DVD copy for the library. It was great having Kevin Arkadie, the director of FESPACO here -- I think our post-film discussion for his film was an hour long! Tonight's film "No Time to Die" from Ghana was a fun..., light end to the first week of the festival.
Cascade Festival of African Films
Documentary Night
In French, English, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish with English subtitles
Cuba: An African Odyssey is the previously untold story of Cuba's support for a variety of revolutionary and independence movements on the African continent from the mid-1960s through the early 1990s. These include Che Guevara's... military campaign in the Congo to avenge the execution of the country's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba; Cuba's support of Amilcar Cabral's uprising in Guinea-Bissau; and the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola, which led to the independence of Namibia and the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
Directed by Jihan El Tahir (2007) 118 min. (France, Egypt)
Time:7:30PM Thursday, February 19th
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
In Arabic and Farsi with English subtitles
A visual poem of breathtaking beauty, the film unfolds like an Arabian fairy tale imparting stories within stories. A blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his granddaughter Ishtar wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place once every thirty years. ...To take her mind off the hardships of travel, Bab'Aziz entertains Ishtar with the legend of the young prince who becomes self-absorbed and neglects his princely duties. En route, they meet other travelers with their own stories of longing and belonging.
Sponsored by the University of Portland.
Directed by Nacer Khemir (2006) 96min. (Tunisia, Iran)
Time:2:30PM Thursday, February 19th
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
In Arabic and Farsi with English subtitles
A visual poem of breathtaking beauty, the film unfolds like an Arabian fairy tale imparting stories within stories. A blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his granddaughter Ishtar wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place once every thirty years. ...To take her mind off the hardships of travel, Bab'Aziz entertains Ishtar with the legend of the young prince who becomes self-absorbed and neglects his princely duties. En route, they meet other travelers with their own stories of longing and belonging.
Sponsored by the University of Portland.
Directed by Nacer Khemir (2006) 96min. (Tunisia, Iran)
Time:7:30PM Saturday, February 21st
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
Directed by Michel Ocelot
2006, 90 min.
In English
Azur and Asmar is another remarkable animated film from Michel Ocelot, director of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Kirikou and the Wild Beasts, both Family Film Day favorites. Azur, the blond, blue-eyed prince, and Asmar, the black-eyed, brown-skinned son of the woman who i...s Azur's nursemaid, are brought up like brothers. Long after the children are separated, Azur remains haunted by the stories Asmar's mother told them of the Djinn Fairy locked away in a land across the seas. So begins his quest to find and rescue the Djinn Fairy. Along the way he discovers a beautiful and mysterious country (which could be Morocco) and is reunited with Asmar and his mother.
Recommended for children from ages 5/6. Rated PG.
Hosted by Baba Wagué Diakité, Malian artist and storyteller.
Cosponsored by Catlin Gabel School and the Portland French School.
Family Film Day
Time:2:00PM Saturday, February 21st
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
Welcome by Portland Mayor Sam Adams.
We are honored to have Charles Burnett, Carl Lumbly, and Edwin Santiago at the 19th festival to present their epic film, Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation. Based on the autobiography of Sam Nujoma, Namibia's first president and former leader of SWAPO (South West Africa People's O...rganization), the film depicts the long struggle waged by the people of Namibia for their independence that was ultimately won with the help of Cuban military volunteers fighting in Angola. The 1987 battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in which the South African army was decisively defeated, turned the tide in the liberation struggle for all of Southern Africa. Starring Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Joel Haikali, and Obed Emvula.
Sponsored by Providence Health & Services.
In Oshi Ovambo, Oshi Herero, Damara/nama, Afrikaans, German, Russian, Chinese, and English with English subtitles
Directed by Charles Burnett (2007) 161 min. (Namibia, USA)
Time:7:00PM Friday, February 20th
Location:Hollywood Theater
Cascade Festival of African Films
Film director Charles Burnett and actor Carl Lumbly will lead the after-film discussion.
This powerful film is set in the United States during the height of slavery, a time when African slaves were deliberately kept illiterate; in fact, any slave teaching another how to read would be subjected to the most violent punis...hment. But this doesn't stop the man known as Nightjohn from teaching a young girl named Sarny how to read and write.
Rated PG-13.
DVD provided courtesy of the Disney Channel.
Directed by Charles Burnett (1996) 92 min. (USA)
Time:12:00PM Thursday, February 19th
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
In Yoruba and French with English subtitles
Another film from Tunde Kelani, the acknowledged master of Nigerian popular cinema (his film Thunderbolt showed at CFAF in 2002; The Narrow Path, in 2008), Abeni tells the enthralling story of long lost love set against the backdrop of Yoruba culture. Abeni, the daughter of a ...wealthy businessman, and Akanni, her childhood sweetheart from a poor family, meet again in their adult lives. Both of their well-planned futures - and their commitments to their respective future spouses - start to crumble when they realize their hearts belong to each other.
Directed by Tunde Kelani (2006), 105 min. (Benin, Nigeria)
Time:7:30PM Saturday, February 14th
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
In French and Malinke with English subtitles
Cheick Fantamady Camara's debut feature explores a recurrent and relevant theme of African cinema - tradition versus modernity. BB, a young, hip 25-year-old political cartoonist at a liberal newspaper in Conakry, and his Web-designer girlfriend, Kesso, dream of a rosy, love-f...illed future together. Their dream is shattered when BB's father, Karamo, a respected imam and guardian of his village's ancestral traditions, chooses BB to be his successor instead of BB's older brother. When BB refuses to accept this destiny, controversy erupts. Winner of the Audience Award at FESPACO 2007.
Sponsored by Willamette University.
Directed by Cheick Fantamady Camara (2007) 113 min. (Guinea)
Time:7:30PM Friday, February 13th
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Cascade Festival of African Films
Producer Alrick Brown will introduce and answer questions about the film.
This moving documentary examines the death of Amadou Diallo, the 22-year-old Guinean immigrant who was senselessly shot to death by 41 bullets fired by New York City policemen, and the death of Jesse Thyne, an American Peace Corps volunteer who li...ved and worked with Diallo's family in Guinea. The film examines the religious, social and political implications of their deaths, raising painful and difficult questions about race and global disparities of justice.
Sponsored by the Columbia River Peace Corps Association.
Directed by Micah Schaffer, (2006) 64 min, (USA, Guinea)
Time:7:30PM Thursday, February 12th
Location:PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Bldg. 104
Welcome to the NINETEENTH Cascade Festival of African Films! We are pleased again to bring you fascinating, award-winning films (23 in all!) from every region of the African continent, along with several excellent filmmakers...
February 6 - March 7, 2009 We are very pleased to present a variety of feature and documentary films from the African continent. The majority of films were made by African directors...
