Films

• Friday 16th October 2009 8:00pm, at The Carlow Arts Centre
• Director: Ralph Ziman
• Duration: 118 mins
• Rating: 18

All Lucky Kunene ever wanted was a BMW seven series and a house with a sea view. But born into a poor family in Soweto in the dying years of Apartheid, the odds were stacked against him. However, working a menial, dead end job, was never an option for this ambitious, talented and impatient young man.

• Friday 17th October 2009 12:30pm, at The Carlow Arts Centre
• Director: Bénédicte Galup, Michel Ocelot
• Duration: 75 mins
• Rating: PG

From the depths of his Blue Cave, Kirikou's Grandfather declares: "The story of Kirikou and The Witch" was too short. There was not the time to tell all that Kirikou has accomplished. For he has accomplished many fine things, which it would be wrong to forget. Listen, then, as I tell you more tales of Kirikou." And so Kirikou's Grandfather starts to tell how the clever little boy learnt to become a gardener, a detective, a maker of pottery, a merchant, a traveller and a doctor whilst remaining as ever the smallest and bravest of heroes.

• Friday 17th October 2009 7:00pm, at The Carlow Arts Centre

A young prince and heir to the throne of his father graduates from a medical school in the US, and convince his fiancé and best friend to come with him home to help him set up a befitting medical centre to carter for the health needs of his beloved home land not minding the offer of good life by the American government, but some thing goes wrong.

• Friday 18th October 2009 3:00pm, at The Carlow Arts Centre
• Director: George Amponsah
• Duration: 75 mins
• Rating: PG

Bukom is a tiny shantytown suburb of Accra in Ghana, a factory for the toughest, most skilled boxers in the world that produced Azumah Nelson (The Professor) three-time world champion. "The Fighting Spirit" tells the story of three fighters, two men and a woman, as they battle their way to the glittering rings of Europe and America to fight for the biggest prizes in the business. Witnessing their triumphs and defeats in and out of the ring, this is a story of modern Africans' ambitions as they fight for respect and reward, for their tribe and their home.

• Friday 18th October 2009 7:00pm, at The Carlow Arts Centre
• Director: Haile Gerima
• Duration: 140 mins

Teza, set in Ethiopia and Germany, chronicles the return of the African intellectual Anberber to his country of birth during the repressive Marxist regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people’s humanity and social values.