Films Upstairs:
Darfur Diaries: Message From Home www.darfurdiaries.org
Realising the worsening political and humanitarian crisis for months and recognizing that the mainstream media offered marginal and inadequate coverage, this film seeks to provide space for the marginalized victims of atrocities to speak and to engage with the world. The film probes the history, culture and heritage of Darfur as a means of deepening understanding of the crisis and complicating easily assumed perceptions by which the conflict is often portrayed.
All About Darfour by Taghreed Elsanhouri
www.newsreel.org
Up until now the perilous situation in Sudan has been seen only from outside the country. All About Darfur offers an opportunity to hear it explained by eloquent, diverse even contradictory voices from within Sudan. The director talks to ordinary Sudanese in outdoor tea shops, markets, refugee camps and living rooms about how deeply rooted prejudices could suddenly burst into a wild fire of ethnic violence. She asks how only two months after peace accords were signed ending a twenty year long civil war between the Christian and animist South and an aggressive Islamic regime in the North, war broke out between the ethnic groups in the West, or Darfur, and the government in Khartoum.
Q&A with Taghreed Elsanhouri and Emmanuel Jal
Music Downstairs:
Live Performance from Emmanuel Jal www.emmanueljalonline.net
Traditional African musical elements fuse with contemporary MC-ing in an unmistakably honest and haunting but playful style. A true talent and pioneer in fusing world music with hip hop. Emmanuel Jal, born in a war torn Sudan in 1980s was a child soldier, rescued and smuggled to Kenya at age 13 and started singing a few years later. Now working on his third album, his second release CEASEFIRE is available internationally.
DJs Supa Scion & Springfield playing music of many colours from Africa and its Diaspora Special Guest Max Reinhardt (The Shrine)
Max Reinhardt is a club DJ, music writer, compiler, BBC World Service radio presenter and a composer for children's theatre and television. With fellow juror Rita Ray, he's co-hosted a string of innovative club events, including the acclaimed Shrine nights, DJ's with Andy Sheppard's Short Cuts and programmes international music festivals in London.
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