Film Fest’ Madness
This week the city is hosting the Windhoek International Film Festival. A wide range of movies from all around the world will be showing at various locations throughout the city.
http://www.wildcinema.org/
On Saturday we went to see The Trail, a French-Namibian collaboration that was rich in scenery but weak in plot. I would recommend it to anyone who really wants to see some beautiful images from Namibia.
Last night we went to see Buss 174. This was a very interesting, yet disturbing movie. The movie is based entirely on live footage and interviews. Almost the entire hijacking incident was covered live from multiple angles. What an age we live in.
The Trail
Many facets of Africa, from the beauty of the bush to the infamy of blood diamonds and the tragedy of child soldiers, are incorporated into The Trail, a ravishingly lensed widescreen tale in which the scenery almost overshadows the story.
After her mother dies in Europe, 14-year-old Grace (Camille Summers) returns to Africa to see her father, Gary (Julian Sands), a geologist who’s taken the exploitation of Africa’s resources to heart.
During a supply flight he crashes in the desolateness of the desert and is taken hostage by diamond poachers. They are angry men and combat-addled children, indignant that their continent’s wealth has a way of passing them by to benefit the white man. 
Bus 174
Based on the extensive research of stock footage, interviews and official documents Bus 174 is the careful investigation of a bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro. The hijack took place on the Brazilian Valentines day of June 12, 2000, and was broadcast live on television for 4 and a half hours. The whole country stopped to watch this real-life drama unfold on TV.
Bus 174 tells two parallel stories: the dramatic events of the hijacking with police intervention and the amazing life story of the hijacker. Not only does it attempt to explain the events that unfolded as the police tried, and failed, to handle the hijack situation; but simultaneously also reveals how a typical Rio de Janeiro street kid was transformed into a violent criminal, hankering for acknowledgement and fame because society systematically denied him any kind of social existence.
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Film Fest’ Madness
This week the city is hosting the Windhoek International Film Festival. A wide range of movies from all around the world will be showing at various locations throughout the city.
http://www.wildcinema.org/
On Saturday we went to see The Trail, a French-Namibian collaboration that was rich in scenery but weak in plot. I would recommend it to anyone who really wants to see some beautiful images from Namibia.
Last night we went to see Buss 174. This was a very interesting, yet disturbing movie. The movie is based entirely on live footage and interviews. Almost the entire hijacking incident was covered live from multiple angles. What an age we live in.
The Trail
Many facets of Africa, from the beauty of the bush to the infamy of blood diamonds and the tragedy of child soldiers, are incorporated into The Trail, a ravishingly lensed widescreen tale in which the scenery almost overshadows the story.
After her mother dies in Europe, 14-year-old Grace (Camille Summers) returns to Africa to see her father, Gary (Julian Sands), a geologist who’s taken the exploitation of Africa’s resources to heart.
During a supply flight he crashes in the desolateness of the desert and is taken hostage by diamond poachers. They are angry men and combat-addled children, indignant that their continent’s wealth has a way of passing them by to benefit the white man.
Bus 174
Based on the extensive research of stock footage, interviews and official documents Bus 174 is the careful investigation of a bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro. The hijack took place on the Brazilian Valentines day of June 12, 2000, and was broadcast live on television for 4 and a half hours. The whole country stopped to watch this real-life drama unfold on TV.
Bus 174 tells two parallel stories: the dramatic events of the hijacking with police intervention and the amazing life story of the hijacker. Not only does it attempt to explain the events that unfolded as the police tried, and failed, to handle the hijack situation; but simultaneously also reveals how a typical Rio de Janeiro street kid was transformed into a violent criminal, hankering for acknowledgement and fame because society systematically denied him any kind of social existence.
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