Visions of Africa screens at Auckland Film Society with the support of Creative New Zealand.

Visions of Africa film series opens Monday 10 May, 6:30 pm at the Rialto with Yeelen (Brightness), directed by Souleymane Cisse, Mali, 1987. All screenings are Members Only. Memberships on sale before all film society screenings at the Rialto. Any Three Film Pass $25, Season Pass $135. Full details at
www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nzVisions of Africa screens at Auckland Film Society with the support of Creative New Zealand.

Visions of Africa film series opens Monday 10 May, 6:30 pm at the Rialto with Yeelen (Brightness), directed by Souleymane Cisse, Mali, 1987. All screenings are Members Only. Memberships on sale before all film society screenings at the Rialto. Any Three Film Pass $25, Season Pass $135. Full details at
www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nzAfrican cinema is one of the least known of the great filmmaking traditions. Feature filmmaking is a comparatively recent phenomenon in many African nations. This programme illustrates how rich and diverse African cinema has become over the past thirty years. Many of Africa's leading filmmakers trained in France or Russia, and so take as a starting point techniques and forms learnt from European film and theatre, rather than from Hollywood. What is most exciting about these films, however, is what they draw from utterly non-European storytelling traditions. The mystical Yeelen (Brightness) and the gorgeous Girl Who Sold the Sun are driven by aesthetic choices that would never even occur to most filmmakers, delivering magic moments that allow the moviegoer to see the world in a new way.

Visions of Africa screens in May--June at the Rialto Cinema, Newmarket

Monday 10 May, 6:30 pm
Yeelen (Brightness), Souleymane Cisse, Mali/Burkina Faso/France/Germany/Japan, 1987. 105 mins, 35mm. GA. In Bambara with English subtitles