Thursday 3 Dec 6.30pm at Ciné Lumière – Book Now!

Morocco, 1913. After being kidnapped and made into a slave, Oud Al Ward, a gifted luth player, is sold on to a wealthy musician. A luth player himself, her new master is taken by her rare talent and beauty, and decides to giver her private music lessons. Encouraged to play in public, both her talent and fame flourish. The special treatment she enjoys triggers the anger and jealousy of the master’s wives. At first kind and attentive, he himself slowly becomes obsessed with Oud Al Ward, his own jealousy as well as desire, overtaking his pride at his pupil’s progress with devastating consequences.

Director: Lahcen Zinoun
Writer: Hisham Lasri, Lahcen Zinoun, Ghislaine DeLion
Cast: Mohamed Miftah, Sanaa laoui, Hanane Zouhdi, Touria Jabrane
Country: Morocco
Year: 2007
Runtime: 90 min

Thursday  3 December 6.30pm at Rich Mix – UK Première – Book Now!

Winner of the best documentary at the African Movie Academy Awards 2009, the documentary is about the the Galmi purple, the onion from Niger that pervades West African markets with 400,000 tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou’s been waiting for her wedding for 2 years. Her father Yaro, urged both by her future in-laws and the village gossip makes a decision : «The wedding will take place at the harvest !» Yaro is aware that to be up to his commitment this time, he has to produce more and sell at a higher price …

Director: Sani Elhadj Magori
Writer: Sani Elhadj Magori
Cast:
Country: France-Niger
Year: 2008
Runtime: 52 min