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Opening & Films
Friday, 14th October 2011
Opening Event:
6pm – 6.30: Wine Reception/Photo Call:
6.30pm – 7.30pm: Official Opening
Opening Performances By:
*ASPIRO
* KOMC3PT
*J-O REPRESENTER
*BRIDGY
*Moribo Wa AfriKa (Rythm of Africa)
Friday, 14th October 2011
Checkmate (Ghana)
Opening Time: 8:30pm
Running Time: 95 minutes
Dir- Shirley Frimpong-Manso
Cert: 15
Admission: €5
….play smart or lose everything!
Kwame has made all the right moves in his life; a good job, a beautiful devoted wife, an adorable child, and an impending promotion as a senior customs officer at the airport. But what seems like a typical guys hang out on a weekend away from home in the company of his new friend and mentor, Kiki, turns out to be the one wrong move Kwame makes.
10:30pm – 10.45pm: Q&A with Nadia Buari
Saturday, 15th October 2011
The Legend of the Sky Kingdom (Zimbabwe)
Opening Time: 12:30pm
Running Time: 71 minutes
Dir- Roger Hawkins
Cert: G
Admission: €3
“Believing is seeing”
Three orphans, two critters, one journey … hundreds of adventures.
When three orphans escape the Underground City they’ll stop at nothing to reach the Sky Kingdom. The Evil Emperor will stop at nothing to get them back…
“Africa’s first full-length animation feature”
1.50pm – 2.30pm- Storytelling by Toluwani Akaehomen
Evening Event:
5pm – 6pm: Red Carpet with Rudolph Walker,
Nadia Buari and Vusi Kunene
The First Grader (Kenya)
Year: 2010
Opening Time: 6:00pm
Running Time: 98 minutes
Dir- Justin Chadwick
Language: English/Kikuyu
Cert: 12A
Admission: €5
This stirring drama turns the obstinate desire for an education on the part of 84-year-old Kikuyu tribesman Maruge into a deeply affecting and emotionally uplifting tale. Taking advantage of a 2002 Kenyan law that guaranteed free education for all, Maruge, a veteran Mau Mau freedom fighter who suffered at the hands of the British imperialist rulers, shows up at his local one-room school, walking stick in hand, and is reluctantly turned away by the sympathetic principal. But Kimani returns the next day, and the day after that, until his eventual acceptance.
Q&A with Vusi Kunene: 7:30pm-7:45pm
Saturday, 15th October 2011
8pm – 2am Festival Party
DJ: Gibson Ncube
Venue: Talbot Hotel,
Portlaoise Roundabout, Carlow
Entry: €10
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