PLANET AFRICA is presenting a selection of films from the FAAAL - African Asian and Latin American Festival. Its three days will be opened by No Bed of Roses, presented by filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.

Within the ambit of the Planet Africa project, the Museum is carrying forward its valuable collaboration with the African, Asia and Latin American Cinema Festival in order to offer certain - African and non - films recently presented at its days in Milan. The chosen films include I Am Not a Witch by Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, Une saison en France, the first European film by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun from Chad, and the Egyptian Poisonous roses by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, just to mention this large continent.

On Friday 23 March at 9.00 p.m., the three days will open with the screening of No Bed of Roses by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. Following the film its director will answer questions by the public at the cinema.

Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.

This showcase is part of Planet Africa, the event organised by the National Cinema Museum since 2010, whose main target is to place the African continent at the centre of careful reflection involving several subjects and to create a space together within which to make the meeting between two cultures easier, safeguarding their respective identities.

Screenings calendar

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

No Bed of Roses (Non un giaciglio di rose)

(Bangladesh 2017, 85’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Javed Hasan, a famous filmmaker, is experiencing a critical period in which both his work and his marriage are in jeopardy. The man falls in love with a friend of his daughter’s and, when the news gets around, a scandal explodes. Inspired by a true story.

Fri 23, at 9.00 p.m. – Followed by a meeting with the director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

Rungano Nyoni

I Am Not a Witch (Non sono una strega)

(GB/France/Germany 2017, 93’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Following a trivial accident happening to her in her village in Zambia, little Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a trial, she is sentenced to exile and is shut up in a camp in the middle of the desert. Here she will have to learn to live according to new rules.

Sat 24, at 4.00 p.m.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Une Saison en France (Una stagione in Francia)

(France 2017, 100’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Abbas, a teacher of French, has left his village in Central Africa in order to rebuild a life in France. While he is waiting to obtain refugee status, he organises his life: he sends his children to school and works at the market, where he meets and falls in love with Carole (Sandrine Bonnaire). But if his asylum application is not accepted, what will happen to these fragments of normal life that he has put together with such difficulty?

Sat 24, at 6.00 p.m.

Hong Sang-soo

On the Beach at Night Alone (In spiaggia da sola di notte)

(South Korea/Germany 2017, 101’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

After starting an affair with a married man, Younghee, a famous actress, decides to take a break from work. She leaves for Hamburg and tries to understand whether missing him is proof of feeling real love for him.

Sat 24, at 8.30 p.m.

Fawzi Saleh

Poisonous Roses (Rose velenose)

(Egypt 2018, 70’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Saqr, aged 22, wants to leave Egypt, but his sister Taheya tries to hinder him. She sabotages the relationship he has with a medicine student, she ruins his plan for embarking towards Italy and dedicates a thousand of attentions to him to convince him that he will never be able to survive without her.

Sun 25, at 4.30 p.m.

Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento

La Telenovela Errante (The wandering soap opera)

(Chile 2017, 80’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

1990. Chilean society does not exist any more, except in the form of TV serials. The country is made up of four "audiovisual regions", on the brink of warfare among themselves. A work with a laboured and singular genesis. La telenovela errante was born in 1990 as a six-day workshop, an allegorical reflection by Raúl Ruiz on the adverse fate that happened to "his Chile". A country finally freed from Pinochet’s dictatorship, but still a prisoner of the cultural desert left by the regime. The scorn and bewilderment felt by Ruiz morph into a Buñuel-like transfiguration of Chilean society, in the shape of a soap opera with an eccentric and surreal spirit.

Sun 25, at 6.00 p.m.