Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure
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Tuesday 21 September, 9.00pm Queen’s Building,<br />
Emmanuel College | Saturday 18 September, 4.15pm<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
Director: Mai Iskander. USA 2009. 79 mins. Arabic with English subtitles.<br />
GARBAGE DREAMS tells the story of three young boys living on<br />
the outskirts of Cairo in the world’s largest ‘garbage village’,<br />
the home of some 60,000 Zaballeen or ‘garbage people’. The<br />
Zaballeen recycle 80 percent of the waste they collect, keeping<br />
their economic system afloat. However, when their community<br />
is challenged by the threat of the globalisation of its trade,<br />
the young boys are forced to make decisions about their own<br />
futures and that of their surroundings. Described by the New<br />
York Times as a film that records the “tremblings of a culture<br />
at a crossroads”, GARBAGE DREAMS takes its audience right to<br />
the heart of the thriving economic village, and, as former US<br />
Vice-President Al Gore expresses, “makes a compelling case that<br />
modernisation does not always equal progress.”<br />
Print source: Courtesy of the filmmakers<br />
DOCUMENTARY<br />
Thursday 23 September, 5.30pm<br />
(CEUX DE LA COLLINE)<br />
(CFF 15)<br />
Director: Berni Goldblat. Switzerland/France/Burkina Faso 2009. 72min. Mòoré and<br />
French with English subtitles.<br />
Gold glitters as strongly as ever in this exploration of a firmly<br />
old-school mineral rush. Word swiftly breaks loose when a<br />
solitary digger upon a remote hillside in Burkina Faso chances<br />
upon a golden nugget. Soon a makeshift city grows populated<br />
by swarms of gold-diggers and dynamite blasters. But where the<br />
prospectors go, so too do the trappings of frontier civilisation,<br />
from medics to merchants, barbers, children, holy men and<br />
prostitutes. Desperate to find their ticket to a better life, these<br />
men and women are recklessly determined to succeed. Berni<br />
Goldblat’s documentary THE HILLSIDE CROWD gets up-close and<br />
personal with the characters of a modern gold rush, exploring<br />
their desperate quest for fortune and elusive happiness.<br />
Print source: Mir<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
DOCUMENTARY<br />
Saturday 25 September, 3.00pm<br />
(CFF PG)<br />
Director: Hawa Essuman. Starring: Samson Odhiambo, Leila Dayan Opou, Krysteen<br />
Savane. Kenya/Germany <strong>2010</strong>. 60 mins. Swahili with English subtitles.<br />
German director Tom Tykwer teamed up with the young Ghanaian-<br />
Kenyan director Hawa Essuman to make this magical film in Kibera,<br />
Nairobi’s sprawling slum. The story is one that appeals to adults<br />
and children alike; it focuses on 14-year-old Abila, who is forced to<br />
embark on a desperate adventure through Kibera. While Abila is<br />
trying to save his father’s soul, SOUL BOY – with its luminous images<br />
and powerful music by Xaver von Treyer – will steal your heart.<br />
Print Source: The <strong>Festival</strong> Agency<br />
PUMZI: THE OUTSIDE IS DEAD<br />
Director: Wanuri Kahiu. Starring: Kudzani Moswela.<br />
Kenya/Germany/USA <strong>2010</strong>. 20 mins. English.<br />
Set in a futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III – ‘The Water<br />
War’, PUMZI is one of a new wave of stunning science fiction<br />
films to come out of Africa.<br />
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