Ginger & Rosa - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

12 Africa in Motion 2012 (continued)
QUARTIER MOZART AiM SHORT FILM COMPETITION – MKHOBBI FI KOBBA DEATH FOR SALE
Quartier Mozart
Sun 28 Oct at 8.30pm
Jean-Pierre Bekolo • France/Cameroon 1992 • 1h20m
Digibeta • French with English subtitles • 15
Told over a 48-hour period in a working-class
neighbourhood in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, Quartier
Mozart is the story of a young schoolgirl known as Queen
of the ‘Hood, and her education on the sexual politics
of the male quarter. Maman Thekla, the local sorceress,
enables Queen of the ‘Hood’s spiritual acquisition of the
body of the young man My Guy, allowing her to satisfy
her curiosity about men. She then becomes a boy suitor
competing for the amorous attentions of a policeman’s
daughter. Maman Thekla herself assumes the shape of
Panka, a familiar comic figure in Cameroonian folklore with
the ability to make a man’s genitals disappear when he
shakes hands with him.
Awarded the Prix Afrique en Création at the 1992 Cannes
Film Festival, Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s humour-filled film and
its colourful cast of characters has delighted film festival
audiences from across the world, and we know you are in
for a treat in Edinburgh as well!
We are delighted to have Jean-Pierre Bekolo in
attendance to talk to the audience, in a Q&A session
following the screening.
This screening is sponsored by the School of Arts and
Humanities, University of Stirling.
AiM Short Film Competition
Mon 29 Oct at 5.30pm
2h21m • Various languages with English subtitles • 15
The Short Film Competition is part of AiM’s commitment
to nurturing young African filmmaking talent. From the
dozens of submissions, eight films have been shortlisted,
comprising a diverse and captivating collection from
across the continent. The winner is selected by our jury
of acclaimed film practitioners/academics and will be
announced immediately after the screening. The audience
will also have the opportunity to vote for their favourite
film, with the Audience Award winner announced at the
closing screening of the festival on 2 November.
Our thanks go to The Africa Channel and Buni TV
for sponsoring the prize money for the Short Film
Competition.
The shortlisted films are:
Le Parrain (The Godfather) - UK Premiere
Lazare Sie Pale · Burkina Faso 2011 · 20m
Dog - UK Premiere Jaco Minnaar · South Africa 2012 · 12m
Who Killed Me - UK Premiere
Amil Shivji · Tanzania/Canada 2012 · 15m
Nola - UK Premiere Askia Traoré · France/Chad 2010 · 26m
Mkhobbi Fi Kobba (Turbulence)
Leyla Bouzid · Tunisia/France 2011 · 22m
Kichwateli (TV-Head) - UK Premiere
Bobb Muchiri · Kenya 2011 · 7m
Salam Ghourba (Farewell Exile) - UK Premiere
Lamia Alami · Morocco/USA/Switzerland 2011 · 16m
Mwansa The Great Rungano Nyoni · Zambia/UK 2011 · 23m
Death for Sale
Mon 29 Oct at 8.45pm
Faouzi Bensaïdi • Belgium/France/Morocco 2011 • 1h57m
Digibeta • Arabic with English subtitles • 15
In the port city of Tetouan, Morocco, there is a permanent
low, heavy sky. Malik, 26, is out of a job and madly in love
with Dounia, a prostitute at the La Passarella nightclub.
Malik and his two friends, all small time crooks, conceive
a plan to rob the city’s biggest jewellery store in the hope
of escaping from an inevitably bleak future. Malik is in on
the heist so that he can take Dounia out of prostitution
and create a new life for them. Allal needs cash so he can
fry bigger fish in the drugs trade. Soufiane, the youngest of
the three, has left school and is looking for direction. When
the plan falls apart, the three friends must face their own
separate destinies alone.
Award-winning director Faouzi Bensaïdi’s third feature is
an open invitation to dive into a visually playful neo-noir
tale of ordinary people who, as Bensaïdi describes, “are
suffocated by a political, economic and religious system.”
AiM 2012 in partnership with Filmhouse
Knowledge & Learning Department is
organising a Secondary School Screening of
the UK premiere of the Kenyan/South African
film Inside Story on Monday 29 October at
10.00am. Learn more about this screening on
AiM and Filmhouse’s websites.
Interested schools can book directly with
Filmhouse box office. Tickets: £2.60 per pupil,
teachers free.