Sub-Saharan Africa Broadcast Presents*
*AFRICAN MUSIC FILM MONTH in conjunction with BUSARA 2015*
Celebrate the diverse music and culture of Africa and the diaspora with a
month-long film-festival on your screen presented by AfriDocs.
During the month of February, AfriDocs' 2 weekly documentary slots – now on
Tuesday AND Thursday evenings, at 8pm Central African time (GMT + 2), and
weekend schedules will feature some of Africa's most loved musical talents
– both historical and contemporary. Never before has such a collection of
documentary films about African music been available to audiences across
the continent.
From Morocco to South Africa, Cape Verde to Madagascar, documentaries
featuring, SALIF KEITA, CESARIA EVORA, BI KIDUDE, ABDULLAH IBRAHIM, OLIVER
MTUKUDZI, BOB MARLEY, OMAR SOSA, SISTER FA, SPOEK MATHAMBO as well as
stories from the Malian Festival Au Desert, and Paul Simon's Graceland, to
the history of punk in Africa – the AfriDocs African Music Film Month is
unmissable television.
Presented in conjunction with Zanzibar's annual Sauti za Busara Music
Festival, taking place from Feb 12th – 15th, this month long musical
extravaganza celebrates the music of Africa and its diaspora – discover the
music and culture of Kenya, Zanzibar, Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, Senegal,
Cape Verde, Morocco, Ghana, Angola and beyond only on DStv 190 ED channel
and GO TV.
Visit www.afridocs.net or www.facebook.com/AfriDocs to stay up to date with
screening schedules, media interviews, twitter chats and more!
*All weeknight screenings are at 8pm (GMT + 2) and weekend screenings start
at 4pm (GMT + 2) on DStv ED Channel 190 & GoTV.*
*TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2015 *
*Under African Skies*
Joe Berlinger | South Africa | 2012 | 89 min |
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his *Graceland*
album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking
the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid
regime.
*THURSDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Future Sounds of Msanzi*
Lebogang Rasethaba & Nthato Mokgata (Spoek Mathambo) | South Africa | 2014
| 76 min |
This film explores the past, present and future of the electronic music
scene and its multiple sub-genres in South Africa – the mission was simple:
to meet up with some of their heroes, colleagues, competitors, and
co-conspirators…an ever-potent gang of electronic music pioneers sculpting
*The
Future Sound of Mzansi*.
*Afripedia Angola*
Teddy Goitom | Angola | 2014 | 28 min |
Welcome to Angola, home of heavy electro music known as kuduro. Follow us
across the pulsating city of Luanda as we delve into the kuduro evolution
and meet the people charting its course.
*TUESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Last Song Before the War*
Kiley Kraskouskas | Mali | 2013 | 74 min |
The story of the most remote music festival in the world, *Festival Au
Desert*, and the battle to make it happen. Two hours from Timbuktu, staged
since 2000 at the Essakane oasis, the festival was a symbol of peace
between the Tuareg nomads and the Malinese - until Islamic militants and
Tuareg rebels ban music and silence the festival.
*THURSDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 2015*
*As Old as my Tongue*
A portrait of Bi Kidude, a living legend on her home island of Zanzibar.
She has beguiled audiences around the world on her wide and varied travels.
Filmed over three years in Zanzibar and on tour with Bi Kidude.
*Screened with Busara – More Than A Festival 25'*
*SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Salif Keita, A Man with a Message*
Jean-Pierre Limosin | Mali | 1996 | 52 min |
We join Salif Keita in Bamako to learn about his sources of inspiration -
his family, the intermarriage of musical influences, and his affirmation of
African identity.
*Reve Kakudji *
Ibbe Daniëls , Koen Vidal
The moment Serge Kakudji saw an opera singer for the very first time as a
young boy on Congolese television, he immediately fell in love with opera
music. He decided to become a celebrated countertenor. Despite the many
doubts of his family, he is determined to make it to the top of the
classical opera world.
*Marley*
Kevin Macdonald | Jamaica | 2012 | 139 min |
Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social
and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. This is definitive
life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days
to his rise to international super-stardom*. *
*Afripedia Kenya*
Teddy Goitom | Kenya | 2014 | 28 min |
Afripedia is about the generation of Africa's rising creative talents. In
Nairobi, the urban culture scene and its leading personalities and stars
lead us to a filmmaker, a visual artist and an Afro-futuristic pop band.
*Homegrown: HipLife in Ghana*
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi | Ghana | 2008 | 58 min |
West Africa has a long-standing tradition of traveling storytellers known
as Griots, who combine poetry, music, and oral history. In Ghana, a group
of young Africans are continuing this legacy and here Hip-Hop music has
merged with High-Life, the traditional music of West Africa, and this
fusion has led to the birth of a new musical genre called HipLife.
*SUNDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Cesária Évora**, Morna Blues*
Anais Prosaic & Eric Mulet | Cape Verde | 1996 | 52 min |
At once generous and secretive, swaying to the rhythms of the waves, this
film is made in the image of Cesária Évora, the unchallenged queen of the
morna, the Cape-Verdean blues.
*Omar Sosa: Out of Africa*
Olivier Taieb | Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi | 2010 | 52 min |
An intimate musical trip with the multiple Grammy nominated Cuban composer,
pianist and bandleader through East Africa. Omar Sosa, influenced by
traditional Afro-Cuban music, records a song with a local musician in each
country in this epic road movie.
*Shanda*
John & Louise Riber | Zimbabwe | 2004 | 70 min |
A documentary about the life and music of Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi from
Zimbabwe. Tuku and his band 'The Black Spirits' are captured performing at
a most remarkable time of their long history together, and the energy of
their music and dance explodes from the screen as Tuku sings the songs that
mean most to him, in the places closest to his heart.
*Sarabah*
Maria Luisa Gambale, Gloria Bremer & Steven Lawrence | Senegal | 2010 | 59
min |
Sister Fa is a trailblazing Senegalese singer and activist on the rise. The
first successful female rapper in Dakar's fiercely competitive hip hop
scene, Sister Fa fights to stop the practise of female genital cutting.
*Abdullah Ibrahim: A Struggle for Love*
Ciro Capperlari | South Africa | 2005 | 58 min |
He is a pianist, composer, Duke Ellington's spiritual and real-life
successor, an icon of African music, the living personification of the kind
of jazz tradition that is conscious of its roots - in short: he is one of
the greatest living jazz musicians. Winner Adolf Grimme Award 2005, Nominee
Rose d'Or.
*Fonko – new music from Angola and Ghana*
Lamin Daniel Jadama & Lars Lovén | Angola, Ghana | 2014 | 59min |
Ghana and Angola are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, as
well as two countries in midst of a musical revolution. Azonto and kuduro
are club music styles based on traditional rhythms and have become a means
of expressing identity for an entire generation. Narrated by Neneh Cherry.
*TUESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Trances*
Ahmed El Maanouni | Morocco | 1981 | 86 min |
The film follows the path of one of Morocco's most famous bands during a
period of conflict. They draw their music from the last thousand years of
Moroccan and African history. We hear the gentle voices of the musicians,
who carry universal messages about love and unity peppered between many
wonderful scenes of music and performances. *Trances* is the first film
restored by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.
*THURSDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Mahaleo*
Paes & Rajaonarivelo | Madagascar | 2005 | 98 min |
In Malagasy, 'Mahaleo' means free, independent. Mahaleo's voices and music
have accompanied the people of Madagascar ever since the collapse of the
colonial regime*. *
*TUESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Punk in Africa*
Keith Jones & Deon Maas | South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique | 2012 | 82
min |
Three chords, three countries, one revolution...*Punk in Africa* is the
story of the multiracial punk movement within the political and social
upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa,
Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
*THURSDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2015*
*Fonko – new music from South Africa and Nigeria*
Lamin Daniel Jadama & Lars Lovén | South Africa, Nigeria | 2014 | 53 min |
South Africa is the home to styles like kwaito, SA House and Shangaan
electro, possibly the fastest club music in the world. Nigeria has the
most commercial music on the continent, but also fierce protest music
carrying on the work of the late Fela Kuti, one of the most hard-core
protest singers ever. Narrated by Neneh Cherry.
*Fonko – new music from Francophone West Africa*
Lamin Daniel Jadama & Lars Lovén | Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal | 2014 | 52
min |
Dakar is the unrivalled centre for the West African hip hop-scene and
coupé-décalé is now a major influence all over West Africa. In Burkina
Faso the name and speeches of Thomas Sankara is used by musicians to
protest against injustices and corruption. In Benin, the veterans of
Orchestre Polyrytmo give a historic background to the music scene of today.
Narrated by Neneh Cherry.
AfriDocs screens every Tuesday at 8pm (GMT + 2) on DStv ED Channel 190 &
GoTV across sub-Saharan Africa.
For the full programme schedule and synopses of the films, please go to
www.afridocs.net or www.facebook.com/AfriDocs
You can also follow AfriDocs on twitter: @Afri_Docs – use
#AfriDocsMusicMonth to stay up to date.