Africa as a whole and East Africa in particular, remains however deprived of skills and access to its own images. Our aim therefore is to deepen the awareness of the film & video media, its skills and its potential. We want to encourage not simply the consumption of images, but also their production. The importance of this is related to the importance of have the perceptions of both our lives and the world around us established along with the other views, which inhabit the global culture of cinema. The work of this years Guest of Honour, Med Hondo, exemplifies these objectives and should be of great inspirational value.

Med Hondo Guest of Honour
Among African filmmakers Med Hondo is recognised as a leading figure in the development of the cinema which has defined the work of the continent. He is counted among those who have been influential in shaping the language African cinema, and consistently raising issues relating to its necessity and survival in Africa.

The presence of Med Hondo at Festival of the Dhow Countries 2000, recognises this legacy and pays homage to the efforts to bring African peoples into an active engagement with their own creativity. Abid Mohamed Medoun Hondo (Mauritania, 1936) migrated to France in 1954 where in 1965 began to study drama under the late french actress Francoise Rosay. In 1966 he formed his own theatre company Shango, with African and Caribbean actors.

In 1969 Med Hondo directed his first feature Soleil O (Leopard dOr, Locarno 1970; Prix de la Critique Internationale, Ouagadougou 1971; Prix des Droits de l Homme, Strasbourg 1972) vividly capturing the African migrant experience in France. With an obviously distinct style which fuses the influences of European experimental theatre, Art cinema and African oral narrative form, he has gone on to make a number of documentaries and widely acclaimed feature films. Med Hondo will present Sarraouina (1986, Grand Prix Yennenga , Fespaco 1987; Prix de lOrganisation of Arican Unity; Prix de l Institut des Peuples Noirs; Prix Air Afrique;Prix Meilleur Scenario; Prix de lAssociation des Femmes du Cameroon) and Watani (1997) in this year s Festival.
Friday 30 June

A Cry for Peace (Tanzania)
Fred Bategereza 1999 28m
This film is based on plays that were performed in late 1999 in a competition between childrens groups from refugee camps in Kigoma and Ngara districts in Western Tanzania. The competition was part of a UNICEF-assisted program of peace education, conflict resolution and reconciliation for the children of the camps.

Between 2 Worlds (Germany)
Bettina Haasen 1999 52m
How does one find a nomad? He is a Fulani nomad and lives in the savanna of Niger. She has been studying African languages in Nigeria. That s where they have met. After five years, the film-maker goes back to his country, looking for her friend, searching for a memory. An inner and outer journey. Very intimate, very authentic.

For Eyes Delight (Morocco/France)
Izza Genini 1997 50m
In Morocco, the art of beautifying is essentially in the hands of women called in the North ziyana , the beautifyer , and everywhere else neggafa . Designated from inside the family or clan, she is now an accomplished professional woman. Following a road that leads them from the Moroccan North to the South, Hajja Khadidja and Fanida, captivating tale tellers, initiate us in the secrets of beauty care. Keepers of the patrimony, they unveil for us the treasures of ornaments accumulated through generations; expert and careful, they lead us with warmth and generosity in the universe of beauty and seduction.

Immaculate Conception (Pakistan)
Jamil Dehlavi 1992 120m Allistair, a British representative for the World Wildlife Organisation, is based in Karachi with his Jewish-American wife Hannah. Outwardly, they have an idyllic lifestyle, but there is an undercurrent of tension beneath the smooth surface of their marriage.

Tchuma Tchato (Mozambique)
Licinio de Azevado 1998 52m A Zambezi valley communitys experience with a conservation-based development initiative.

Stone Town: Old Houses and Strong Women in Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Lars Johansson & Farida Nyamachumbe 1999 55m
A film that looks at the conservation of Zanzibar Stonetown, and also how some of it s inhabitants live and think.

Portrait of a Young Man Drowning (South Africa)
Teboho Mahbatsi 1999 10m
A young man comes to terms with dark secrets of his past.

Ubule Bembali/The Beauty of Flowers (France)
Emanuelle Bidou 1999 52m
This film captures the life, hope and dreams of a group of South African migrant workers. As hostel dwellers their songs express the social drama of their lives.

Lost Innocence (Uganda/Sierra Leone)
Patrick Vergeynst 2000 28m
This film documents the gross violations of childrens rights during conflict. It examines how children in Uganda and Sierra Leone are affected after being used by the warring parties as killing machines or as sexual objects. The documentary also questions the response of the international community to such child abuse

Premi?re Nuit sur le Trottoir (Senegal)
Pape Seck 1999 15m
It is the story of the young and poor Rama, a honest girl, nave and innocent. She has been confronted with a very difficult social situation which changed whole her being.Now, she is on the street with other prostitutes. One client seduces her first and robbers her afterwards. Will the need of money destroy the beauty and the honest of the girl?

Hali Halisi (Netherlands/Tanzania)
Martin Meulenberg 2000 31m
Hali Halisi the real situation is about rap as an alternative medium. In this documentary rappers, and experts give their views on the emerging rap music of Tanzania. Filmed on location in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, views are offered on the importance of rap as a means of communication.

Monday 3 July

Neema (Tanzania)
Geoffrey Mhagama 1999 105m

See Friday 2 July programme

Distinction (UK)
Charles Thompson 1995 13m
A young woman joins a temping agency but discovers the jobs that she can be assigned to are not quite what they seem. The Distinction Agency is a secret spy network run by black women and has been spying on the world for over two centuries

Behind An African Mask (South Africa)
Anthony Irving 1997 52m
Ten years in the making, and shot in eight countries around the Indian Ocean, Behind An African Mask takes the viewers on a journey of discovery and intrigue to present a refreshing new look at Africas early history.

From the Ashes (South Africa/Denmark)
Joao Ribeiro 1999 26m
They traveled huge distances, killing and stealing so they had to be cleansed , so goes the story of Mozambiques young people who return home years after having been forcibly drafted into bloodthirsty guerrilla militia during Mozambique s gruesome civil war. An engrossing story that employs first person narration and makes extensive use of clear and crisp visuals to lend a light-hearted optimism to what is essentially a dark tale of sorrow and pain.

Soul in Torment (South Africa/Denmark)
Prudence Uriri 1999 26m
A whole people in torment is a future in torment . A horrific tale of inter-ethnic betrayal and genocidal war that tore deep into the heart of Zimbabwean nationhood only after Zimbabwes independence. Former members of opposing sides, who took part in the civil strife between the Shona and Ndebele people, demonstrate their participation in torture and murders that illustrate the spine-tingling brutality of a war that ultimately had no discernible cause.

The Power Stone (Namibia)
Kelly Kowalski 1999 53m
This true story follows the journey of a sacred stone belonging to the Kwanyama people of northern Namibia and southern Angola.

Ibo The Silver Artisans (Mozambique)
Sol Carvalho 1995 8m
Historical and contemporary images inspired by famous Mozambican poets.

Mapungubwe Secrets of the Sacred Hill (South Africa)
Lance Gewer 1999 52m
A thousand years ago in the Limpopo Valley, on the northern border of South Africa, a sophisticated African society, ruled by sacred leaders, was already trading in gold and ivory with the distant merchant kingdoms of Persia, Arabia, India and China. This film reveals the controversial 1933 rediscovery of Mapungubwe and its sacred burial sites that contained finely crafted.

Wend Kuuni/Gift of God (Burkina Faso)
Gaston Kabore 1982 75m
A child is found unconscious under a tree. He is adopted by a weaver and his family, and it is soon discovered that he is mute. The family names him Wend Kuuni. The child regains his power of speech after a shocking experience, and reveals his true origins and the reason for his dumbness.

Yellow Card (Zimbabwe)
John Ribber 2000 90m
This is the story of teenagers in Africa today; of a boy, desperate to become a man but still clinging to his childhood. It is a rites of passage film, full of action, humour, heartache and absurdity. It has hope and delusion, anxiety and comfort, the desolation of Aids and the desire for a better life.

Arcadia (Zimbabwe)
Feizal Mamdoo 2000 17m
Zimbabwean comedian Edgar was born and raised in Arcadia, a Harare suburb, built in the 1930s by the settlers to house interracial couples and their children. The film follows Edgar from this hall of mirrors into the real world of his own interracial family where we learn about his mothers childhood.

ABCD (USA/India)
Krutin Patel 1999 105m
This is the story of Raj and Nina, first generation Asian Indian immigrant children who have grown up in America, and their mother Anju, who is desperately trying in her old age to reconcile her long ago decision to come to America.

Tuesday 4 July

Watani: A World Without Evil (France)
Med Hondo 1998 78m
The film is a portrait of two men with families one black, one white who lose their jobs on the same day in Paris. When the white bank executive is unable to find a job he begins to drink heavily and meets a gang of fascist youths at a sleazy bar. Filled with hatred they drive around the street of Paris at night looking for and murdering lone black people. The black streets sweeper is also unable to find a job, loses his accommodation and seeks refuge in a local church with young family. Here he finds support and comfort from other stranded immigrants. The white man who lives in an affluent suburb pampers his two daughters with presents and lies to his disabled wife about his nocturnal activities. On learning that her husband has been involved in murdering defenceless people, the wife commits suicide. The story is a timely reminder of the legacy of slavery and colonialism and the rise of fascism and racist murder in the streets of Europe.

White Farmers, Black Land (France/South Africa)
Aldo Lee 2000 57m
In 1994, South African Afrikaners were forced to relinquish their political power and racial privileges. Traumatised by the changes taking place in their country, some white farmers decided to emigrate and participate in an agricultural development project in the region of Niassa in Northern Mozambique. This film follows Daan Fritz and his family and a few other pioneers in the project as they travel northwards in the footsteps of their Boer ancestors who a hundred years ago set out on the Great Trek which has become the founding myth of Afrikaner culture.

LEsprit de Mopti (France)
Moussa Ouane 1999 54m
In eastern Mali, where desert and savanna meet, lies Mopti, a major Muslim city and a commercial junction on the river Niger. Every Thursday, businessmen of differents ethnic groups mingle at the market. In Mopti, you can hear all the languages of Mali spoken, and here the ancient bartering tradition is still practiced. This film seeks to capture the Mopti spirit, made up of tolerance, humor, respect, for others, exchange and commerce. It follows representative individuals who are in Mopti to do business and attend the fair: a Dogon, a Bozo, a Peul shepherd, a Tamasheq stockbreeder as well as a local middleman, Bella the carter. Conceived by a French writer and directed by a Malian, this documentary about an exchange economy is the results of this spirit of sharing and receptivity which is the central lesson of the Mopti spirit.

Purgatory (Australia)
M. Frank 1999 7m
A girl wakes to find herself lying in a deserted hospital and after witnessing the failed revival of an accident victim, makes a shocking discovery.

Cape Town Tales of a Colour d City (South Africa)
Thulani Mokoena
This documentary traces Cape Towns pre-colonial history, years before the arrival of Europeans. It also focuses on Cape Town s colonial history when European invaders such as Portuguese Francisco de Almeida and later Jan Van Riebeck arrived in Cape Town.

Slavery of Love (South Africa)
John Badenhorst 1999 115m
The Cape of Good Hope (1714). Sara De Molenaar falls in love with the slave Saliem, with tragic consequences for slaves and settlers alike. Saliems sister Tahira curses the Van Branden family and commences upon her personal voyage to freedom.

Lady Was A Mshoza (South Africa)
Nokuthula Mazibuko 1999 26m
The film is about the women of the sipantsula subculture, who were known to be flashy dressers, shop-lifters, and were generally termed as bad girls.

Hillbrow Kids (South Africa)
Michael Hammon & Jacqueline Gorgen 1999 94m
This film brings us face to face with the sheer brutality of street life Johannes-burg style. Society as seen through the eyes of teenagers reveals the cracks in our moral fibre.

Jinnah (Pakistan)
Jamil Dehlavi 1998 110m
Jinnah tells the dramatic story of the partition of India, the final intrigue and arguments between Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Jinnah, Gandhi, Nehru and the mercurial Lady Mountbatten. Jinnah the central character is taken on a journey though which he dreams of freeing the people of India from the burden and insults of foreign rule is distorted by the realities of politics. It is the story of a visionary who knew that on his word hung on the future of a nation.

Wednesday 5 July

Muhipiti Alima (Mozambique)
Sol Carvalho 1999 26m
A fiction film about a couples problems when ythe wife decides to study.

Stone Town: Old Houses and Strong Women in Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Lars Johansson & Farida Nyamachumbe 1999 55m
A film that looks at the conservation of Zanzibar Stonetown, and also how some of it s inhabitants live and think.

Women and War (South Africa)
Robyn Hofmeyr 2000 52m
It is a documentary looking at the many issues that surround women during and after war. The production was filmed in countries on a rough meridian across Africa, through the Middle East and into the Balkans, in countries that are currently in or that have known conflict in recent years South Africa, Northern Uganda, Israel and Palestine and Bosnia. In these different situations, we sought to find commonality and areas for comparison. Women talk about their experiences of these wars in these different contexts. We listen and try to understand, to see how women survive.

Ye Wonz Maibel/Deludge (UK/Ethiopia)
Salem Mekuria 1997 61m
A visual meditation on history, conflict and the roads to reconciliation. A tale of love and betrayal, of idealism and the lure of power. It is a memorial to a brother who disappeared and a best friend executed. A story of the Ethiopian students, their Revolution and its aftermath, a brutal military dictatorship.

Sidet: Forced Exile (UK/Ethiopia)
Salem Mekuria 1991 60m
Sidet profiles the personal odyssey of three Ethiopian/Eritrean women refugees in Sudan. Coming from different backgrounds, they experience exile differently, revealing their unique strengths and weaknesses as they struggle to cope with precarious existences in a poor and hostile land. In individual portraits, with the women narrating their stories, Sidet captures the complexity of the experiences of exile, especially in a Third World context. It heightens the visibility of women in exile, revealing the resilience, courage, and determination of women survivors, without romanticising them or their circumstances.

Mozambique Island Meeting of Cultures (Mozambique)
Sol Carvalho 1996 9m
The first capital of Mozambique is a mixed of European, Arabian and African cultures.

Miracle of Hands (Mauritius)
Brijmohun Brothers 2000 10m
A film on the manual works.

Kumar Talkies (India)
Pankaj Rishi Kumar 1999 76m
Kumar Talkies explores the relationship between Kalpi, a small town in northern India, and its only surviving cinema theatre, a decrepit and cash-strapped shed located in a particularly dirty corner of town. The film documents cinema as simultaneously a vehicle that conveys a remote, urban imagination to a small town such as Kalpi, and a medium in which different people expect their localised existence to be captured and displayed.

Aid el Kebir (France)
Karin Albou 1998 35m
In Eastern Algeria, a family is getting ready for the feast of Aid el Kenir. The dying father wants his youngest daughter, Hanifa, to marry. In this morbid atmosphere (against the background of Algeria s political troubles), Hanifa opts for love.

A Fountain for Susan (Slovakia)
Dusan Rapos 1999 105m
A romantic comedy set against the background of the African wilderness and the beauty of Victoria Falls. Susan, the heroine of the story, arrives in the small African village posing as the wife of her Africam friend Ibrahim, who lives in Europe. She wants to help him get out of his planned marriage to Nene.

Thursday 6 July

Rabi (Burkino Faso)
Gaston Kabore 1992 97m

I Have Seen (South Africa/Denmark)
Richard Pakleppa 1999 26m
Out of the experience of a bitter war with South Africa, the films voices tell of war crimes committed by Namibia s liberation movement has urged that the past should be forgotten and forgiven. This kind of reconciliation poses serious questions for the victims.

The Way I See (India)
Sangeeta Datta 1999 80m
It is a documentary centrally exploring alternate ways of seeing things, of different perspectives. It is based on interviews with seven women film-makers.

Free Africa (Germany)
Martin Baer 1999 83m
A history of German military involvement in Africa from 1940 to today, and a history of the German image of Africa the Africans in movies and television.

Nehru (India)
Shyam Benegal & Yuri Aldokin 1984 171m
Divided into three parts The Awake-ning, The Struggle and Freedom, this film is a biographical film on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. It is a first person biography relying for its text entirely on Nehru s writings and speeches. The film traces the evolution of Nehru from his birth through his charismatic life.

Mohamed Alis Happy Day Feast (Australia)
Catherine Dyson & Mohammed A Osman 1998 52m
Having survived war in Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen, Mohamed and his wife Halima arrive in Australia with resilient optimism, and set about esta-blishing their dream caf?. As their first year unfolds, life is not as expected. Mohamed is an optimist, with an eye on the future, Halima looks patiently towards resolving the past. In their dealings with customers, local council, the immigration department, and marketing mavericks, we experience their cultural perspective of Australia, ripe with humour, hope and misunderstandings.

Adu Ivumun (Maldives)
Mohammed Hilmy 2000 12m
Twenty-four hours in the life of Shaahid, a young deaf boy, are filled with difficult decisions about how, and ultimately whether, he chooses to participate in a world of sound. Adu Ivumun is an emotional examination of Maldivian domestic mores with traditional dilemmas recast in a contemporary setting.

At The Second Traffic Light (USA)
Lucy Gebre-Egziabler 2000 21m
It is a story that unfolds in the course of two traffic lights. Five drivers and a few pedestrians are forced by an accident sat at intersection to interact with each other. All characters are from different races, religions, genders, walks of life. The accident causes a traffic jam and the street is blocked.

Aces (South Africa)
Ntandazo Ngcingca 1998 18m
Fate can be a cruel thing indeed. Ace leaves prison on parole. Forbidden to see his young child, Ace finds himself rejected and ridiculed by those he grew up with. Alone and without friends, he can only remember his prison socio-logist. He gets to her house, only to see her facing life threatening abuse at the hands of her former lover. Can he stand by and watch this without offering help? Is this not the same reason he went to jail, for helping his mother against her abusive husband? Circumstances force him to make a decision he may regret.

Mariana and the Moon (Mozambique)
Licinio de Azevado 1999 70m
Mariana Mpande, a traditional healer in a remote Mozambican village, goes to the United States to publicise the experience of community management of natural resources that has changed the life of the region where she lives, an area rich in wild life. Extrovert and communicative, Mariana captivates audiences of intellectuals in Washing-ton, New York, Berkeley. The spirit that governs her healing activities, Koro, the monkey, enters into communication with Indian spirits, in a reservation on northern California, and with Hawaiian spirits in the crater of a volcano. The bear, the dragon, the lizard, representatives of cultures completely different from her own, become Koros brothers. Mariana carries with her the moon, hope. In parallel with Mariana s physical and spiritual journey to America, Matias, a wildlife warden and her companion on this trip to the other side of the globe, makes another voyage into the secret depths of Africa, in search of the truth about the death of a friend.

Ram Dass (Mauritius)
Brijmohun Brothers 1999 10m
The making of charcoal is based upon Mauritian culture. Ramdass is the history of a poor coalman who struggles hard to earn his living.

Mokarrameh, Memories and Dreams (Iran/France)
Ebrahim Mokhtari 1999 48m
A village woman in Iran owned a beloved cow. To feed the animal she had to fetch grass on a long and tired walk. One day her own children sold the beast without telling her. Overcome by sorrow, she began painting to get over the pain. She used the walls of her house, pumpkins, whatever surfaces she could find as her canvasses, until one of her sons, on his monthly visit from Tehran, brought her paper and paint. From then on the old woman has painted tirelessly. Her pictures recount a story the story of her life, of the other wives, of her husband and other women in the village, their married life and their work. Interwoven are bitter tales. Imagination and reality combine in her paintings, giving real insight into traditional Iranian customs.

Avril (Tunisia/France)
Raja Amari 1998 30m
Tunis, nowadays. Amina, a young girl of ten years old is employed as a maid in the house of two sisters Dalila and Farida, both in their fifties who live alone since their parent s death. Farida is ill. As the days go by, attacks and doctors visits succeed one another. Amina is to find out that these problems are merely a pretext, a call of distress, a need for the presence of somebody, the presence of a man, the doctor.

Friday 7July

Footprints Where Cultures Met (Tanzania)
Bernado Mathias Sepeku 2000 53m
This docmentary shows historical areas of the Bagamoyo, town such as Stone Town houses, Arabic and Indian doors the main cultural heritage of Bagamoyo, Kaole ruins, the Fort, the caravan serai a place where the victims of the slave trade laid down their hearts hence the name Bagamoyo. So Bagamoyo becomes the place of hope!

Aliens or Broers (South Africa)
Thulani Makoena 1999 52m
A documentary on the everyday life of French speaking Africans in Johannes-burg. From the flea markets of Newton to Ponte Tower and around Soweto, meet and follow a few of these immigrants, in a series of life sequences, encounters and situations. A unique occasion to understand the inside story of this community and its relations with the local environment.

Mokarrameh, Memories and Dreams (Iran/France)
Ebrahim Mokhtari 1999 48m
A village woman in Iran owned a beloved cow. To feed the animal she had to fetch grass on a long and tired walk. One day her own children sold the beast without telling her. Overcome by sorrow, she began painting to get over the pain. She used the walls of her house, pumpkins, whatever surfaces she could find as her canvasses, until one of her sons, on his monthly visit from Tehran, brought her paper and paint. From then on the old woman has painted tirelessly. All her pictures recount a story the story of her life, the story of the other wives of her husband and other women in the village, their married life and their work. Interwoven are bitter tales. Imagination and reality combine in her paintings, giving real insight into traditional Iranian customs

Lady Was A Mshoza (South Africa)
Nokuthula Mazibuko 1999 26m
The film is about the women of the sipantsula subculture, who were known to be flashy dressers, shoplifters, and were generally termed as bad girls

Aid el Kebir (France)
Karin Albou 1998 35m
In Eastern Algeria, a family is getting ready for the feast of Aid el Kebir. The dying father wants his youngest daughter, Hanifa, to marry. In this morbid atmosphere (against the background of Algeria s political troubles), Hanifa opts for love.

1942A Love Story (India)
Vinod Chopra 1993 160m
The time is 1942. The month is August. The call for the British to quit India is gaining momentum across the breath of the vast Indian subcontinent. Repression is unleashed on the freedom fighters. The personal story of Naren and Rajjo is eclipsed by the unfolding events.

The Daily Nation (Holland/Kenya)
Hillie Molenaar & Joop van Wijk 2000 55m
A look at contemporary Africa through the microcosm of the successful Kenyan newspaper. The film witnesses the heated discussions between editors, finds out about the ambitions of the journalists and experiences the breaking news. It looks at the at the distribution and acquisitions department, at the omni-present security. Outside, in the modern town and ragged slums, reporters and vendors are at work. The Nation is a modern medium in a country struggling with all the difficulties of the African continent. The film ask questions about democracy in Africa, the need for a free press and the value of information.

Spirit of Malombo (South Africa)
David Max Brown 1999 52m
This documentary shows a young trio of musicians turned the wheel of music history full circle to establish Africa once again as the seed core of contemporary world jazz. Since 1960s the original Malombo Jazz Men have forged independent careers and continue to entertain both in South Africa and internationally, and have inspired a new generation of young musicians. This documentary shows how we have to touch the past to understand the present and make love to the future.

A Portrait of Mr. Pink (UK)
Helena Appio 1997 15m
A portrait of the life of and art of a retired refuse collector. A Jamaican migrant in Britain, Mr.Pink brings alive his ideas of his Caribbean life.

Pieces of Identity (Congo)
Mweze Ngangura 1998 93m
Winner of the Yennega Fespacos Grand prix in 1999, Pieces of Identity centres on Mani Kongo, an ageing Zairian king who resolves to search for his daughter Mwana, from whom he has nor heard since she was sent to Belgium to study at the age of eight. Mani Kongo arrives at Brussels airport, clad in the symbols of traditional power. Forced by Belgian customs officers to pay an importation tax on the treasured works of art he is wearing, he later finds himself obliged to pawn them through Jos, an antique dealer.

Saturday 8 July

Jewel Mountain (Iran)
Abdullah Ali Morad Morad 1996 28m
A young boy gets himself into trouble because of his curiosity. Help arrives from an unexpected source.

Second Coming (India)
Biju Viswanath 1999 10m
A journalist befriends a street boy who is a drug peddler, hoping for a scoop. When the boy is brutally murdered the journalist, instead of preventing it, photgraphs the gruesome act. The eternal question of right and wrong haunts him.

A Cry for Peace (Tanzania)
Fred Bategereza 1999 28m
This film is based on plays that were performed in late 1999 in a competition between childrens groups from refugee camps in Kigoma and Ngara districts in Western Tanzania. The competition was part of a UNICEF-assisted program of peace education, conflict resolution and reconciliation for the children of the camps.

Muhipiti Alima (Mozambique)
Sol Carvalho 1997 35m
A fiction film about a couple s problems when the wife decide to study.

The Deep (France)
Klein 1998 22m
Eleven miners stuck in a gallery after an explosion. Eight men, three children, and no way out. No rescue in sight. How to see the light of day? How to survive? How not become beasts?

Maangamizi (Tanzania/USA)
Ron Mulvihill & Martin Mhando 1998
Winner of the Golden Dhow 1998.
This is a story about three women, a doctor, her patient and the ancient and mysterious ancestor who brings them together. It is a tale of healing through love, compassion and forgiveness. It is the spiritual journey of the soul. It is a story that dares to represent the histories of two continents as it peels away layers of pain and ultimately brings healing of the soul.

Naked Planet Kilimanjaro (UK/USA)
Daniel Percival 50m
This film traces how the unique geology and ecology of Kilimanjaro is intimately interwoven with its human history and culture.

nto Africa with Henry Louis Gates The Swahili Coast (UK/USA)
Nick Godswin 50m
The first in a series in bbc2s History Zone, in which writer Henry Louis Gates embarks on one of six journeys through contemporary Africa in search of the continent s forgotten past.

Saturday 8 July 19.30

AWARDS PRESENTATION

Sunday 9 July

Colour of Paradise (Iran)
Majid Majidi 1999 90m
Mohammad is an eight years old student, who studies in blind school in Tehran. After one year he along with his father return to his birthplace, which is a village located in the highlands of Iran. This returning leads him to discover his environment and the beauty of things.

Ubule Bembali/The Beauty of Flowers (France)
Emanuelle Bidou
See Sunday 2 July

A Voice From Heaven (USA)
Giuseppe Asaro

See Saturday 1 July