the films

Monday 27●11●2006	Tuesday 28●11●2006	Wednesday 29●11●2006	Thursday 30●11●2006	Friday 1●12●2006
‘Mother Africa’ (showing at Kaffa Coffee Co.)	‘Africa Learning’ (showing at Kaffa Coffee Co.)	‘Leading Africa’ (showing at Kaffa Coffee Co.)	‘Africa Forgiving’ (showing at Fellowship Dallas - if weather is bad it will be in Swiss Towers contact Michelle Jones)	‘Hearing Africa’ (showing at Northwest Bible - time to be announced)
“Yesterday” – was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film in 2005 (first South African film to be nominated for an Oscar) – about a faithful woman and mother who gets infected with AIDS by her husband who works in the goldmines in Johannesburg and deals with how it affects her and her daughter’s life.	“The Constant Gardener” - starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz who won the “Best Actress” Golden Globe for it in 2006 filmed mainly in modern-day Kenya – a British couple working in the Embassy discovers something suspicious related to free pharmaceutical drugs and its effects on the local population.	“Sometimes in April” – HBO documentary about Rwanda – it starts a decade after the genocide when there is a Human Rights Court hearing cases in Tanzania and a radio-presenter stands charged with inciting this tragedy although he never directly killed anybody.	“Tsotsi” – won Oscar for best foreign film 2006 (first South African film to win an Oscar) – about a young thief who hijacks a car from a couple without knowing that there is a young child in the backseat.	“Red Dust” – starring Oscar winner Hillary Swank who plays a New York lawyer (who fled Africa as soon as she was eighteen) involved with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in South Africa