Reel
Voices' Africa Film Series ~ African Masterworks and Portraits
of Philadelphia’s African Community
Thursday,
March 4 at 7:30 PM
Presented
by International House and Scribe
Video Center
Join
us for extraordinary films from the African continent, organized
by Philadelphia filmmaker Filmon Mebrahtu of Reel
Voices. Each feature film will be paired with an
excerpt from Mebrahtu’s Rencontrer, a series of newly
produced documentary portraits of remarkable men and women in
West Philadelphia’s growing African community.
Lumumba
dir.
Raoul Peck, Zimbabwe/Mozambique/Belgium, 2001, 35mm, 115 mins,
color, French and Lingala w/ English subtitles
 When
the Congo
declared its independence from Belgium
in 1960, the 36-year-old,
self-educated Patrice Lumumba became the first Prime Minister
of the newly independent state. Called "the politico of
the bush" by journalists of the day, he became a lightning
rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained
him powerful enemies in Belgium and the U.S. Strikingly photographed
in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Belgium, the film vividly re-creates
the shocking events behind the
birth of the country that would become modern day Zaire.
Preceded
by:
Rencontrer:
Siddiq
dir.
Filmon Mebrahtu, USA, 2003, Beta SP, 5 mins
Tickets are $6.00 for general admission, $5.00 for I House members,
students and seniors. Available one hour before showtime at
the International House box office.
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