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The 18th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films is screening a number of films on Sierra Leone. All CFAF films are free and open to the public. For more information, call 503.244.6111 ext. 3630.
The Lion Mountains: A Journey Through Sierra Leone's History
- (Sierra Leone/UK, 2006, 54 min.) directed by Louis Buckley
- A 25-year-old Englishman of Jamaican and African descent heads to Sierra Leone to learn more about his history. The film examines pre-colonial Sierra Leone, the beginning of the African and European trade, slavery, resistance, the 1807 Abolition Act, and the effects of Western imperialism and colonial rule.
Thursday, February 14, 7:30 p.m.
Moriarty Arts & Humanities Building, Room 104
Portland Community College Cascade Campus
705 N. Killingsworth St.
Moving to the Beat
- (Sierra Leone/USA, 2007, 52 min.) directed by Caleb Heymann and Abdul Fofanah
- Rebel Soulz, an African American hip-hop group from Portland, journeys to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to discover a spiritual homeland and resurrect Chuck D's notion of hip-hop as the "black CNN." The language of hip-hop allows for a dialogue between Black Americans and Africans to explore issues of race, gender and war and to forge a connection that transcends centuries of misunderstanding and separation.
Thursday, February 14, 8:30 p.m.
Moriarty Arts & Humanities Building, Room 104
Portland Community College Cascade Campus, 705 N. Killingsworth St.
Ezra
- (Sierra Leone/Nigeria, 2007, 110 min.) directed by Newton Aduaka
- A former child soldier searches for inner peace after the horrors he has witnessed and committed as a combatant in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war. Aduaka brings audiences into close contact with the life and mindset of a child combatant. Ezra won the Grand Prize at the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma à Ouegadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso, Africa's largest and most prestigious film festival, in March 2007.
Friday, February 15, 7 p.m.
Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.