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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People´s Ears with Not So Fast, Songololo and Anna from Benin
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Directed by Various
Various, 1984-2000
Color
65 Minutes
Show Times:
Sun., Sep. 7 2:00 PM
Sun., Sep. 7 3:00 PM
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People´s Ears
Directed by Verna Aardema; Leo and Diane Dillon
(1984, 10 min.)
2:00 p.m.
A tall tale sets off a comic chain of mishaps from Mosquito to Iguana to Python to Rabbit to Owl, but all is wisely resolved by King Lion at the jungle council meeting. Narrated by James Earl Jones.
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Not So Fast, Songololo
Directed by Niki Daly
(1991; 10 min.)
Malusi, affectionately nicknamed Songololo by his grandmother Gogo, goes to the city to go shopping with her. Set in South Africa, Daly´s warm text is enhanced by expressive illustrations that capture the warmth and tenderness shared by grandmother and child.
Anna from Benin
A film by Monique Mbeka Phoba
(Germany/Benin, 2000, 45 min., subtitled)
3:00 p.m.
Anna from Benin is a portrait of an extraordinary 17-year-old. Anna is one of 31 children that her father has had with his five wives. As the star of her family´s orchestra, the Tek Stars, she went to study in France on scholarship — a rare event in Central Africa, where most girls don´t get the opportunity to get an education. As a result the entire countries hopes are pinned on her success. This beautiful documentary focuses on Anna´s struggles as an independent teenager with a domineering father in Central Africa and as an African teenager in France without the protection of her siblings and her five mothers. Congolese filmmaker Monique Phoba´s portrait allows us a rare view of the lives of girls in Africa at the beginning of a new century.
Photo: Anna from Benin
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