Venue | Meta House, #37 Sothearos Blvd. |
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4PM: DOCUMENTARY - There is a new tribe in Kenya called “Survivors” and they are easily identified by the bottle pressed against their lips. This fiercely loyal gang of children exists in the margins of an urban wilderness, huffing glue to endure the hell of street life. Following four kids over three years, TOUGH BOND (2013, 84 Min) by Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck delivers an alarming portrait of life in modern day Kenya.
7PM: DOCUMENTARY - Shot among the Samburu semi-nomadic tribe of Kenya, Charles Gay’s WHEN THE TIME COMES (2012, 13 min) portraits its relation to the ancestral and controversial practice that is female circumcision (Female Genital Cutting) and highlights the inter-generational debate that is taking place in their communities, allowing girls and women to fight for their rights, with the support of many men.
7.30PM: DOCUMENTARY - This is the Horn of Africa, a region of the world that is periodically shocked by terrible droughts. Each year to prepare for the coming drought, Borana herders will gather their livestock and walk for days to the dry Oromia Lowlands (South of Ethiopia) to retrieve water from their secular astonishing “singing” wells. With its strong photography and its epic narration, THE WELL – WATER VOICES FROM ETHIOPIA (2011, 56 min) by Paolo Barberi & Riccardo Russo follows their life during a whole dry season, showing a unique traditional water management system that regulates what water is available as the property and right of everyone, without any money being exchanged.
8.45PM: DOCUMENTARY - Zambia has the third largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population lives on less than $1 a day. Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. It receives more tax than it can use thanks to one resident, Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are generating huge profits. STEALING AFRICA by Christopher Guldbrandsen (2012, 58 min)