The African Activist Association at UCLA invites you to the final film screening of the Fall 2008 quarter.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
80 minutes, South Africa, 2005
in English/English subtitles, with some Zulu, Somali, Swahili, Portuguese, French, Korean
5:00 PM - social time, light refreshments
5:30 PM - film screening begins promptly
About the film:
Khalo Matabane's fictional film is an impressive debate on the effects of war and expulsion, in which the boundaries between fiction and documentary are deliberately blurred. Keniloe, a young poet in Johannesburg, strikes up a conversation in the park with Fatima, who has fled the atrocities in Somalia. He decides to use her experiences as the basis for a book. Suddenly, however, she disappears. Equipped with a video-recorder, Keniloe sets off to find her. Along the way he meets various refugees from Africa, Europe and Asia, who candidly discuss their pasts.
AAA will be screening Bamako in January; information about the film screening will be discussed.
Africa Film Series:
Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon is the last film screening of the Fall 2008 quarter and is part of a series of Africa/Africa-related/diaspora films that will be sponsored by the African Activist Association. More details will discussed at the screening of this film.
About the African Activist Association (AAA) at UCLA:
AAA was started over 35 years ago by activist graduate students at UCLA. Currently, the mission of AAA is to provide a forum through which Africanists across disciplines can collaborate to increase awareness of issues concerning Africa. AAA aims to encourage positive and productive discourse about Africa both within the UCLA community and beyond.
Questions? More info? Contact AAA at africanactivists@gmail.com.
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The African Activist Association (AAA)
University of California, Los Angeles
c/o The James S. Coleman African Studies Center
405 Hilgard Avenue, 10244 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310
Telephone: (310) 825-3686; Fax: (310) 206-2250
Email: africanactivists@gmail.com
Pay-by-space and all-day ($9) parking available in lot 3. For directions, campus maps, transportation options to UCLA, visit www.ucla.edu/map.
Cost : Free and open to the public.
African Activist Association310-825-3686
africanactivists@gmail.com www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Sponsor(s): The African Activist Association at UCLA.