Marte Kaan

Film helps Cambodians to deal with the past

August 2005 -

'Buddhism teaches that he will be punished after his death anyway,' says Chheang Sopheng, who has just seen the documentary Deacon of Death by Jan van den Berg and Willem van de Put, which had its Cambodian premiere in Phnom Penh on 19 July 2005.

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African art from plastic bottles

May 2005 -

It’s called the Bottleboy and is just a small, brightly-coloured cap that fits on practically every bottle but it’s what makes empty plastic water bottles easier to recycle. This invention is the brainchild of the Walking Chair developers’ collective in Austria.

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Poetry festivals in Africa

May 2005 -

Six years ago on March 21, the first World Poetry Day was held. UNESCO hopes that this initiative will encourage ‘the reading and writing of poetry throughout the world’. Every year, this day is used to draw people’s attention to, and recognise the importance of, regional, national and international movements in the world of poetry.

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Tsitsi Dangarembga films African stories

April 2005 -

'I want to translate stories from the Zimbabwean tradition into modern imagery.' Tsitsi Dangarembga knows what she wants to achieve with her films.

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FESPACO on professionalization of African film

March 2005 -

Every two years, the Festival Panafricain du Cinema et la Television de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is held in Burkina-Faso. On 26 February 2005 the festival's nineteenth edition started.

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