African Film Festival
Africa in Motion (AiM) comes to Skye withAfrican Film Fest 350 its touring film festival ‘Sports Stories from around the African Commonwealth’, as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. “On foot” two films focused on running, in the ‘Shebeen Screen’ In South Africa, ‘shebeen’ describes an informal drinking place in a township, and in Scotland it also refers to an unlicensed bar or pub. TheAiM Shebeen Screenwill replicate the way Africans watch films through an African-decorated mobile cinema. The AiM Shebeen Screen will travel to Dundee, Isle of Skye, Cromarty, Inverness, Coll and Dunoon, in addition to pop-up screenings in Glasgow and Edinburgh. “Sabbat El Aid” ~ “My Shoes” Anis Lassoued | Tunisia 2012 | 30 mins | Tunisian dialect with English subtitles | Short Nine-year-old Nader loves to run, Africa in Motion Nader Tlili in My Shoes by Anis Lassoued 350as if he wants to defy gravity. We follow him as he journeys through his village, down winding paths bordered with lush green forests, greeting each neighbour as he passes, until he climbs up a large mountain to the tallest point where he looks down over his small village with a sense of awe and freedom. While shopping for Eid clothes with his parents, he sets his heart on a pair of expensive shoes beyond what his father can afford. From this moment on it is as if nothing else matters, he prays for the shoes, dreams about the shoes, he can’t eat or sleep. The film then captures this emotion by transporting the audience into his dream through the magic of animation. “Town of Runners” Jerry Rothwell | UK/Ethiopia 2011 | 52 mins | (15) | Documentary Town Of Runners is a feature documentary about Africa in Motion Town of Runners 350young people from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, whose runners have won 8 Olympic Gold medals, 32 World Championships and broken 10 world records in the last 20 years. The film follows two girls as they strive to emulate their local heroes, making the journey from school track to national competition and from childhood to adulthood. Their mentor is a former PE Teacher who has discovered and trained many of the world’s leading long distance runners including Tirunesh and Genzebe Dibaba, Kenenisa Bekele and Deratu Tulu. Adults £6, Students and young people £5 at the door. Find out more at: http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/Date: 12/06/14
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, TDC main hall
Audience Numbers: 0
Type: Film and Music