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Time To
Care: Let’s Face It
1996, 50 min
Country: Uganda
Producers: Pathfinder International, JHU Center for Communications
Programs DISH Project and The Uganda Ministry of Health
Languages: English, Luganda voice-over, Runyankole voice-over,
Lukonzo voice-over
REVIEW: Time to Care: Let's Face It tells the
story of two young men who are considering getting tested for
HIV. Kizito and his wife, Mathia, have already tested postive
for STDs and understand the high risks of contracting HIV. Magezi,
on the other hand, is interested in proposing marriage, but
wants to get tested out of consideration for the woman's well
being. Kizito and his wife both have the same concerns, but
don't know how to approach each other about HIV testing. Finally
Kizito talks to his wife and they get tested together. Magezi
also gets tested, but his results are positive. Includes the
clinical counseling sessions and shows the testing procedures.
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Time To Care:
The Dilemma
1996, 50 min
Country: Uganda
Studio: Pathfinder International, JHU Center for Communications
Programs DISH Project and The Uganda Ministry of Health
Language: English
REVIEW: When Kato is cheated out of his bumper
harvest, he visits Kizito's bar to ease his worries, Where he
bumps into his old girlfriend Maria. One thing leads to another.
When Kato contracts a sexually transmitted disease, the consequences
on his family life are serious. Mirembe leaves for a while,
but the horrors of STDs are fully realized when Mirembe almost
dies during a miscarriage resulting from an STD, and the question
of possible HIV infection is yet to be answered. This video
was made to deal with the treatment and care of sexually transmitted
disease. |
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True Friends
2002, 21 min
Country: Mozambique
Director: Bert Sonnenschein
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
REVIEW: A trilogy of short films using hand-made
animal puppets to dramatize different issues around HIV/AIDS,
making them easily accessible to young children 5 to 8 years
old.
True Friends (7 minutes)
As the gossip spreads that Gazelle is HIV positive, her best
friend Zebra gets upset and expels her from the lakeside. When
the wise tortoise finds her alone and weeping, she stands up
for Gazelle and calls upon the other animals to reaccept her.
The Razor Blade (7 minutes)
When Lion is suffering from asthma, Aida, the hippo, takes her
friend to Auntie, who is a sangoma. Lion is scared to death
of the treatment and Aida jokes around with him. But Auntie
knows how to treat asthma and how to prevent AIDS while treating
her patients.
Little Soldiers (7 minutes)
Hippo had heard shooting during the night, and the friends fear
that poachers have returned. But Lion fears this new disease
called AIDS even more, as he does not understand it. Tortoise
explains, describing how white blood cells and the virus work
in the body. |
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Two Dollars
With or Without a Condom
1997, 40 min
Country: Ethiopia
Producer: African Studies Association
Languages: English
REVIEW: Ethiopia has become to the Arab world
what Thailand is to European tourists
Prostitution in Ethiopia has increased incredibly in recent
years. In one section of Addis Ababa, some 130,000 girls support
themselves by selling their bodies. Most of them are under eighteen,
and many even under fourteen.
In this probing documentary we meet the victims, girls that
have been orphaned, or thrown out by their family, or are hoping
to find a better life.
They are compelled to turn to prostitution to survive. The young
ones, like nine-year-old Yashwarek, don't even earn enough money
to buy food. The older ones earn more, about $2 a night, but
yearn to work the luxury hotels as high class prostitutes.
Virtually all the girls are HIV positive. Condoms are seldom
used, even though they are distributed free in many places.
Customers, believing the youngest girls are HIV-free, seek them
out, which in term keeps lowering the age of girls becoming
HIV infected. Some attempts by agencies are being made to help
these girls, but they face heavy odds. |
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Une Conversation
1991, 20 min
Country: Senegal
Studio: Sponsored by the Harvard AIDS Institute for the Sixth
International Conference on AIDS in Africa.
Director: Christopher Sands
Languages: French with English subtitles
REVIEW: Une Conversation is a close, face-to-face
look at the AIDS epidemic in western Africa. The film does not
evade any of the disturbing realities or opinions about this
global catastrophe. A Muslim community leader argues that the
disease is a divine scourge sent to punish humanity for its
immorality. Beleaguered health care workers attempting to fight
the disease with little money or resources contend that AIDS
is a horrible yet preventable disease. Prostitutes argue that
the disease will never be controlled until governments recognize
the scope and urgency of the problem and implement tough, realistic
public health measures. A man dying of AIDS pleads for tolerance,
and recognition of his humanity. “I feel so alone,”
says a recent widow who has discovered she is HIV positive. |
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Wa’n
Wina (Sincerely Yours)
2001, 52 min
Country: South Africa
Director: Dumisani Phakathi
Language: English, Sotho and Zulu with English subtitles
REVIEW: Filmmaker Dumisani Phakathi returns
to his old neighborhood. With a camera on his shoulder, he engages
with friends to discuss relationships, sex and love. Strong
characters like Phumla and Timothy expose their emotions as
they talk intimately about the realities of their street and
the choices they have been forced to make. It 's a rock and
roll journey that reveals the gaps between everyday life and
the AIDS education campaigns that often talk past the very people
they are supposed to address. It is the recognition of the people's
will to survive in the age of AIDS. |
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We All
Share Some Responsibility (Doni-Doni B’an Bela)
2002, 35 min
Country: Burkina Faso
Studio: Cinomade and SIDA Ka Taa, with assistance from The Royal
Embassy of Pays-Bas in Burkina Faso, CICDOC Ouagadougou, The
World AIDS Foundation and the North-South Foundation of Zurich.
Director: Berni Goldblat & Daphne Serelle
Langueage: English and French
REVIEW: This may well be the first time that
a group of West African men and women speak openly in front
of a camera about a once-taboo subject that has turned into
a daily and deadly threat: AIDS. Gender relations, dealing with
the use of condoms, the power of money, fears of getting tested
for HIV/AIDS, having to cope with such a stigmatizing disease,
are discussed candidly, making this film an indispensable awareness-raising
tool. It's message extends well beyond its Burkina Faso setting
as it raises, in simple words, some basic existential questions:
viewers will easily relate to the feelings and fears expressed
and be provoked into using these frank first-hand accounts as
a basis for further discussions. A must for any AIDS-awareness
campaign kit.
Awards : Best Film - Journees Internationales
de Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso, June 2002. |
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Yellow
Card
2000, 90 min
Country: Zimbabwe
Studio: Pathfinder
Directors: John Riber
Language: English
REVIEW: Rising star in Hyenas, the township
football team, responsible son and Head prefect hopeful at the
local high school, Tiyane can’t seem to put a foot wrong.
But the game of life is about to stage a grand upset. His hormones
are running riot and everybody wants a piece of him, especially
Linda a long-time friend from the neighbourhood.
Tiyane’s game for it but there are some things he hadn’t
bargained for. Like falling in love with the lovely Juliet,
or becoming a dad! As he tries to weave his way through the
chaos of his lust, love and self-deceiving, Tiyane finally has
to face up to the fact that he has a son.
Yellow Card is a fast-paced, funny and touching story of teenage
love, lust for life, laughter and a passion for football. One
boy’s dream to go places and achieve things.
The World at his feet... And a Babe in his arms. |
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Yesterday
2003, 85 min
Country: South Africa
Studio: Nelson Mandela Foundation
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Language: Zulu with English subtitles
REVIEW: Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes
of South Africa, Yesterday is an eloquent, unsentimental film
that quietly builds an overwhelming emotional force. The film's
title protagonist is a 30-year-old mother who lives in Rooihoek,
a remote village in South Africa's Zululand. Yesterday's life
is not easy; there's little money, no modern conveniences, and
her husband is away in Johannesburg working as a miner. But
she possesses a sunny nature, and takes great joy in her seven-year-old
daughter Beauty (Lihle Mvelase). The precarious balance of Yesterday's
life is threatened when she is diagnosed with AIDS, and must
journey afar to learn about and confront her illness. Yesterday's
primary driving force for survival is her daughter, who is a
year away from starting school. Yesterday herself never had
the chance to go to school, and as she faces her affliction
she sets her sights on a single goal: to be with Beauty on her
first day of class, along with all the other proud mothers of
Rooihoek. Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film |
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