Monday’s Girls

June 2, 2009
Monday’s Girls
Call Number: VHS00929
by Ngozi Onwurah; Lloyd Gardner; Caroline Lee Johnson; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Waikiriki and English with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1994]
Notes: Originally released in 1993 (50 mins.);
Summary: A tribal chieftain’s daughter who has lived in a large city for some time agrees to return to her native village for traditional pre-marital ceremonies involving body painting, public breast examination and five-weeks’ confinement to “fattening rooms.” Her refusal to fully participate in the ritual sparks a crisis underlining the conflict between traditional and modern African lifestyles.
OCLC #: 40624186
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Femmes aux yeux ouverts

Women with Open Eyes
Call Number: VHS00928
by Anne-Laure Folly; Amanou production (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco : California Newsreel, [1994]
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (52 mins.);
Summary: Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage, AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy.
OCLC #: 31964916
Added: June 2, 2009
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These Hands

These Hands
Call Number: VHS00927
by Flora M’Mbugu-Schelling; Dieter Schelling; Full Frame (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Swahili and Kimakonde with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1992 (45 mins.);
Summary: Surveys a typical workday in the lives of impoverished women in Tanzania who manually mine gravel used for making concrete for urban building projects. An exceptional documentary containing little dialog or plot.
OCLC #: 31976085
Added: June 2, 2009
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Karmen Geï

April 16, 2009

Karmen Geï

Call Number: DVD00288
by Joseph Gai Ramaka; Richard Sadler; Djeïnabe Diop Gaï; Magaye Niang; Stephanie Biddle; Thierno Ndiaye; Dieynaba Niang; Prosper Mérimée; Euripide Productions.; Arte France cinéma (Firm); Canal Horizons.; California Newsreel (Firm); Kino International Corporation.; et al
Format: DVD
Language: French and Wolof with English subtitles
Publisher: New York : Kino on Video, ©2005.
Notes: Originally released in 2001 (82 mins.); edition includes interviews and stills gallery; Adapted from the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Summary: Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden. She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much singing and dancing.
Also: See Carmen Jones (VHS00666) and Carmen (VHS00366)
OCLC #: 58528626
Added: April 16, 2009
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Daresalam

March 16, 2009
Daresalam
Call Number: DVD00169 Copy 1
DVD00169 Copy 2
by Issa Serge Coelo; Ismael Ben-Cherif; Pierre Guillaume; Pierre Javeaux; Haikal Zakaria; Abdoulaye Ahmat; Gérard Essomba Many; Sidiki Bakaba; Pierre Javaux Productions.; Sept/Arte (Firm); Kino International Corporation.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Arabic and French with English subtitles
Publisher: New York : Kino on Video, [2004]
Notes: Originally released in 2000 (105 mins.);
Summary: In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey that will transform them from boys into men.
OCLC #: 58528346
Added: March 16, 2009
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Touki Bouki

November 12, 2008
The Journey of the Hyena
Call Number: VHS00350
by Magaye Niang; Mareme Niang; Djibril Diop Mambéty; Christophe Colombe; Moustapha Touré; Aminata Fall; Ousseynou Diop; Cinegrit.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1993?]
Notes: Originally released in 1973 (85 mins.);
Summary: The tale of an outlaw couple desperate to escape their shantytown lifestyle.
OCLC #: 77662565
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Africa Dreaming

Four short films on love from Namibia, Mozambique, Senegal and Tunisia
Call Number: VHS00349
by Richard Pakleppa; Bridget Pickering; Abderrahmane Sissako; Dora Bouchoucha Fourati; Joseph Gai Ramaka; João Ribeiro; Pedro Pimenta; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Nama; Arabic; French and Wolof; and Portuguese with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1997.
Notes: Originally aired in 1997 (26 mins. each);
Chapters: Sophia’s homecoming / directed by Richard Pakleppa ; produced by Bridget Pickering — Sabriya / written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako ; produced by Dora Bouchoucha Fourati — So be it / written, directed and produced by Joseph Gai Ramaka — The gaze of the stars / directed by João Ribeiro ; produced by Pedro Pimenta
OCLC #: 38208149
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Twist à Popenguine

Ça twiste à Poponguine or Rocking Popenguine
Call Number: VHS00348
by Moussa Sene Absa; Claude Guiman; Jean-Michel Morel; Antoine Perset; Takis Candilis; Jean-François Balmer; Ishmaïl Thiam; Ousmane Boyer; Ibrahima Mbaye; Patrice Nassalang; Marieme Fall; Coura Ba; Rawane Diallo; M’Bagnick Seye; Abou Camara; Madou Diabate; Caméras continentales.; France 2 cinéma (Firm); Radio-télévision Sénégal.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1993.
Notes: Originally released in 1993 (90 mins.);
Summary: A coming of age story set in a remote Senegalese beachside village during the week before Christmas, 1964, where the local teenage boys are divided into rival cultural camps. The “Ins” (“Inseparables”) style themselves after French pop stars, attend school, have all the girls–but no record player. Their rivals, the “Kings,” style themselves after African-American blues legends, they work as fishermen, don’t have any girls–but they do have a record player.
OCLC #: 33828051
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Ta Dona

Fire!
Call Number: VHS00347
by Adama Drabo; Mamadou Kaba; Fily Traore; Djeneba Diawara; Balla Moussa Keita; Diarrah Sanogo; Kora Films (Firm); CNPC (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Bambara with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (100 mins.);
Summary: Tells the story of the quest for secret knowledge by a young Bambara man. While working in a peasant village, the hero, Sidy, searches for the seventh “canari”, a forgotten, secret Bambara herbal remedy used in childbirth. Faced with a scorching drought and a corrupt government, Sidy manages to save the village and rediscover the seventh “canari.”
OCLC #: 29197458
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Quartier Mozart

Quartier Mozart
Call Number: VHS00346
by Kola Case; Jean-Pierre Bekolo; Lisette Dennis; Felicité Oyono; Serge Amougou; Sandrine Ola’a; Jimmy Biyong; Essindi Mindja; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1992 (80 mins.);
Summary: Queen of the ‘Hood is a proud young girl who doesn’t want to be taken advantage of by men. She befriends a local sorceress who helps her enter the body of a young man, My Guy, so she can discover for herself the real “sexual politics” of the quarter. Meanwhile, the sorceress assumes the shape of Panka, a familiar comic figure in Cameroonian folklore with sexual powers. In this sex farce, women’s wisdom and “witchcraft” help to temporarily regain the balance of power in a sexist world.
OCLC #: 29011706
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Allah Tantou

God’s Will
Call Number: VHS00345
by David Achkar; Archibald Films.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French and Soussou with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (62 mins.);
Summary: Through home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional reconstruction of imprisonment, this film examines the life of the filmmaker’s father, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. Film reevaluates the turbulent decade of African independence and discusses its relevance to the new political order on the continent.
OCLC #: 84408127
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Sango Malo

The Village Teacher
Call Number: VHS00344
by Bassek Ba Kobhio; Films Terre Africaine.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor, 1991?]
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (94 mins.);
Summary: A new high school teacher brings turmoil to a rural Cameroonian village when he introduces sex education and vocational training into the curriculum. He also starts agricultural and marketing cooperatives for villagers that the students work on as part of their education. The local authorities however, including the store owner and school’s headmaster, are alarmed by the teacher’s radical actions and have him imprisoned.
OCLC #: 27120937
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Hyènes

Hyenas
Call Number: VHS00343
by Djibril Diop Mambéty; Alain P Rozanès; Pierre-Alain Meier; Martine Olive Brun; Mansour Diouf; Ami Diakhate; Friedrich Dürrenmatt; California Newsreel (Firm); ADR productions.; et al
Format: VHS
Language: Wolof with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1993?]
Notes: Originally released in 1992 (113 mins.);
Summary: A woman who amasses a fortune returns to her hometown upon which she will bestow a great deal of money if someone there will murder her former lover who betrayed her, forcing her out of the village and into a life of prostitution.
OCLC #: 35371278
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Afrique, je te plumerai

Africa, I Will Fleece You
Call Number: VHS00342
by Jean-Marie Téno; Narcisse Kouokam; Marie Claire Dati; Essindi Mindja; Raphia Films Production.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1993 (88 mins.);
Summary: An overview of 100 years of cultural imperialism in Africa. Director Jean-Marie Teno uses Cameroon, the only African country colonized by three European powers, for a case study of the devastation of traditional African societies by imposed colonial cultures. This film will make the cultural and intellectual conflicts of present-day Africa easier to understand.
OCLC #: 42498092
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Udju Azul di Yonta

The Blue Eyes of Yonta
Call Number: VHS00341
by California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Criolo with English subtitles  
Publisher: Guinea Bissau ; San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1991 (90 mins.);
Summary: A bittersweet portrait of the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation in Guinea Bissau, personified by Vicente, who was a hero of the revolution but is now a struggling businessmen despondent over the failure of his political ideals. Vicente fails to notice the flirtations of Yonta, who represents the vibrant younger generation which has come of age since independence was granted in 1973, and has replaced revolutionary rhetoric with an unabashed enthusiasm for western consumerism. Yonta in turn is oblivious to the attentions of Zè, a poor student from the country, who sends Yonta absurdly romantic poems (actually written for a Swedish girl) praising her improbably “blue eyes.”
OCLC #: 225693116
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Zan Boko

Homeland
Call Number: VHS00340
by Gaston Kaboré; Joseph Nikiema; Colette Kaboré; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: More with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor, 1988]
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (94 mins.);
Summary: Zan boko means “the place where the placenta is buried” and symbolizes the continuity between past and present in African village societies. Tells the story of one village swallowed up by one of Africa’s large cities and the change from agrarian society to a mass media culture.
OCLC #: 25571097
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Woubi chéri

Woubi Cheri
Call Number: VHS00339
by Philip Brooks; Laurent Bocahut; Sept/Arte (Firm); Dominant 7 (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (62 mins.); Edition is a preview version;
Summary: Woubi Chéri is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces us to gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality.
OCLC #: 41180391
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Le Grand blanc de Lambaréné

The Great White Man of Lambaréné
Call Number: VHS00338
by Bassek Ba Kobhio; André Wilms; Marisa Berenson; California Newsreel (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (93 mins.);
Summary:  A fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer…shot on the site of [his] hospital in Gabon…reveals a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption and arrogance.
OCLC #: 36002851
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Rouch in Reverse

November 10, 2008
Rouch in Reverse
Call Number: VHS00337
by Jean Rouch; Manthia Diawara; Formation Films.; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Association relative à la télévision européenne.;
Format: VHS
Language: French and English with English subtitles  
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (51 mins.);
Summary: The first film to look at European anthropology from the perspective of its subjects. Malian filmmaker and New York University professor, Manthia Diawara, examines the anthropological enterprise through the work of Jean Rouch, perhaps the most distinguished ethnographic filmmaker living today. The two discuss Rouch’s work.
OCLC #: 34497132
Added: November 10, 2008
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Guimba, un tyran une époque

Guimba, a Tyrant and His Era or Guimba the Tyrant
Call Number: VHS00335
by Cheick Oumar Sissoko; Ibrahima Toure; Idrissa Ouedraogo; Kora Films (Firm); Centre national de production cinématographique du Mali.; Direction de la production cinématographique du Burkina-Faso.; Westdeutscher Rundfunk.; California Newsreel (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Bambara and Peul with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (94 mins.);
Summary: A tyrant throws his city into conflict and chaos when he allows his randy, dwarf son to reject an arranged marriage to the slim local beauty in order for him to pursue the girl’s larger, married mother. The tyrant then sets his own eyes on the girl, making the situation even worse. An epic set in the legendary past of Mali (West Africa) to provide a biting allegory of present-day African politics. Through the story of the downfall of Guimba the tyrant, the filmmaker foretells a similar fate for the many dictators who still pillage the continent. He frames his film with the appearance of a griot, a traditional African storyteller who passes down the “wisdom of the ancestors”, looking to the values and legends of the African past for inspiration and guidance in reconstructing well-governed, self-sufficient nations.
OCLC #: 36446384
Added: November 10, 2008
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