AfriDocs - Sub-Saharan Africa Broadcast Presents:
From the 10th of December AfriDocs returned to its regular weekly schedule including the best documenataries from across Africa and beyond. As we head into the festive season AfriDocs celebrates some inspirational positive stories of hope and progress from Africa.
Finding Hillywood examines how the blossoming film industry in Rwanda is helping to heal the wounds of the past, Tour de Faso follows the competitors in Burkino Faso’s ten-stage cycle race, and When Voices Meet documents the 500 strong choir that was formed in South Africa after the release of Nelson Mandela.
Celebrate Africa this December with AfriDocs.
AfriDocs screens every THURSDAY at 19:55 Central African time (GMT + 2) on [ED] DStv Channel 190 & GOtv Channel 65 across sub-Saharan Africa. Repeats on Sundays
10 December
The Witches of Gambaga | Yaba Badoe | Ghana | 2010 | 55 min
The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Painful experience and insight come together to create an intimate portrait of the lives of women ostracized by their communities
Winner - Best Documentary Black International Film Festival 2010
Finding Hillywood | Chris Towey, Leah Warshawski | Rwanda | 2013 | 60 min
Finding Hillywood chronicles one man's road to forgiveness, his effort to heal his country, and the realization that we all must one day face our past. In Hillywood (Rwanda's film industry named for the country's rolling hills) there is a blossoming film community. As Rwanda is still healing from the wounds of a cultural genocide almost 20 years ago, cinema has become a way for artists to express themselves and create cultural discussion.
Winner – Audience Award Best Documentary, Napa Valley Film Festival 2013
17 December
Tour Du Faso | Wilm Huygen | Burkina Faso | 2014 | 90 min
Culture clash on the sandy tracks of Burkina Faso. Africa’s biggest cycling race, the Tour du Faso, is a ten stage challenge for European amateur adventurers and African local heroes. It’s a passionate race for making their dream come true. Yet the film does not focus on the question of who will win – instead, it pays particular attention to the value of the protagonists’ experiences.
Stranger Than Fiction Cologne, Germany 2014
Afripedia | Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft & Senay Berhe | Ghana | 2014 | 28 min
The whispers among connoisseurs talk about Accra as the next big hotspot for African cultural production, and ‘Afripedia, Ghana’ suggest they’re not wrong. Meet outspoken and androgynous music star Wiyaala and exciting trick bikers Bikelordz whose BMX skills and flamboyant style have taken neighbourhoods by storm. Artist Serge Attukwei Clottey highlights environmental issues through street performances as his alter ego, Afrogallonism, the modern water warrior.
24 December
When Voices Meet | Nancy Sutton Smith | South Africa | 2015 | 86 min
When Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison, courageous South African musicians formed a 500-voice, multiracial children’s choir. Threatened with bombs and thwarted at every turn, they prevailed and railroaded across the country aboard The Peace Train. When Voices Meet documents the trials, tribulations and triumphs of those musician activists and young choir members.
Best Documentary, World Music & Independent Film Festival in Washington, 2013
Afripedia | Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft & Senay Berhe | Angola | 2014 | 28 min
Welcome to Angola, home of heavy electro music known as kuduro. Follow us across the pulsating city of Luanda as we delve into the kuduro evolution and meet the people charting its course.
31 December
Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls | Juliet Lamont | Myanmar | 2012 | 82 min
After fifty years of military dictatorship Burma's first girl band faces a tough reality. When you're finally allowed to speak, what do you say? In a country undergoing massive change, five feisty young women break free of tradition in their search for an original voice.
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2012, Nominated for Best Feature-Length Documentary
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Afripedia | Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft & Senay Berhe | Kenya | 2014 | 28 min
Through the stories of its key talents, ‘Afripedia, Kenya’ takes an intimate look at Nairobi’s urban culture scene and its leading personalities and stars.
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