| DATE/TIME |
DITSHWANELO’S MINI HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL – BRIEF SYNOPSES OF FILMS |
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 |
5.00 – 5.52pm |
Gender / Women in Africa
Mama Africa is a series of 6 x 26 min short films by and about women, which is intended to challenge the stereotypical perception of women and their contexts in Africa.
1. Botswana - Riches follows the flight of a mixed race journalist from apartheid South Africa.
2. South Africa - Raya is concerning a young mother's recognition that true change can only be realised from within. |
5.52 – 6.00pm |
Short Break |
| 6.00 – 6.52pm |
Gender / Women in Africa
3. Tunisia - One Evening in July unfolds the battle between the morals of a sixty year old bridal beautician and her empathy for a reluctant bride, who is plotting to murder her groom.
4. Burkina Faso - A Close-up on Bintou portrays the self-elevation - against all odds - of a downtrodden housewife to a dynamic businesswoman whose ultimate symbol of success is a motorbike |
Sat, 5 Apr 2003 |
| 3.30pm |
Children
1. UNICEF Cartoons on Children’s Rights - Cartoon depictions of the rights of the child. |
7.00 – 7.15pm |
1. Official Opening Ceremony |
7.15 – 7.40pm |
Anti – Apartheid Struggle
2. Bloody Money Smuggling - The role of Archbishop Khotso Makhulu and a Norwegian Church network in smuggling money from Botswana to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. |
| 7.40 – 7.50pm |
Short Break |
7.50 – 9.40pm |
3. Amandla! A Revolution in 4-Part Harmony - How music was used in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. |
Sunday, 6 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 7.00pm |
HIV/AIDS
1. The Ball - Condoms have an alternative use for kids who want to play football…
2. 6000 a Day – An Account of a Catastrophe Foretold - How the world's top decision makers knowingly failed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. |
7.00 – 7.15pm |
Short Break |
7.15 – 8.07pm |
Gender / Women in Africa
3. Botswana - Riches follows the flight of a mixed race journalist from apartheid South Africa.
4. NAMIBIA: Uno’s World - Uno's World presents the disintegration of a young single mother's escapist lifestyle when she is confronted with the inescapable responsibilities of childbirth. |
Mon, 7 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 6.50pm |
Gay Rights
1. Dirty, Sinful Me - How does the Protestant Church deal with homosexuality, and how does this affect individual lives? |
6.50 – 7.00pm |
Short Break |
| 7.00 – 7.52pm |
2. Simon & I - About two giants in the South African gay and lesbian liberation movement. |
| 7.52 – 8.00pm |
Short Break |
8.00 – 8.52pm |
Indigenous Peoples
3. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - “The Hottentot Venus” - About the Khoe-Khoe woman who was taken from S.A. to Europe and exhibited as a freak. Also screened at last year’s film festival. |
| Tue, 8 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 6.26pm
6.26 – 7.18pm |
Zimbabwe
Gender
1. Tina Machida - In Zimbabwe, coming out of the closet is like climbing into a coffin, but Tina Machida bravely takes on the fight for the rights of gays and lesbians.
Land
2. My Land My Life - The filmmaker returns to what was formerly his homeland, Zimbabwe, to seek understanding of the current political and economic crisis in the country. |
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 7.27pm |
Indigenous Peoples
1. Mabo –Life of an Island Man - The role of one man, Eddie “Koiki” Mabo, in the legal struggle for native land title for Australia’s Aboriginals. |
7.27 – 7.40pm |
Short Break |
7.40 – 8.40pm |
The Bushmen’s Last Dance - The conflict over relocation of the San / Basarwa from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). |
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 6.52pm |
Gender/Women in Africa
1. South Africa - Raya is concerning a young mother's recognition that true change only be realised from within.
2. NIGERIA - Hang Time centres its focus on a young, poor, but talented West African basketball player whose desperation to wear the right shoes to impress an American basketball scout ends in tragedy |
6.52 – 7.00pm |
Short Break |
7.00 – 7.27pm
7.27 – 8.17pm |
HIV/AIDS
Orphans
3. Paying the Price - Pharmaceutical companies block generic drugs, threatening the lives of millions of Africans with AIDS.
Orphans
4. Shouting Silent - Destinies of female AIDS orphans in South Africa. |
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 7.40pm |
Police Brutality
1. Injustice – Families of victims of police brutality fight for justice. |
7.40 – 8.00pm |
Short Break |
8.00 – 9.12pm |
Indigenous Peoples
2. The Great Dance – a hunter’s story - In this film the viewer is taken on a hunt with some San / Basarwa, providing insight into preparations and hunting methods. |
Sat, 12 Apr 2003 |
3.30pm |
Children
1. UNICEF Cartoons on Children’s Rights - Cartoon depictions of the rights of the child. |
6.00 – 6.52pm |
HIV/AIDS
1. Body & Soul - Attitudes to HIV/AIDS of three main religions in South Africa |
6.52 – 7.00pm |
Short Break |
7.00 – 7.28pm |
Indigenous Peoples
2. A Spiral of Silence - How do the Basarwa / San relate to the media in Botswana? |
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 |
6.00 – 7.20pm |
Globalisation
Environmental Degradation
1. The Many Faces of Madness - How globalisation and industrialisation cause ecological destruction of the commons in India.
Capitalism
2. Profit and Nothing But! - Who benefits from the capitalist system, and what are its effects for countries and people at its margins? |
