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Music & Musicals, World Music, African Music - Gerhard Kubik, a cultural anthropologist with a keen interest in African music, spent years compiling recordings of African fingerstyle guitar playing. This program showcases his remarkable collection of music, recorded in Africa and Europe. Featured guitarists include Mwenda Jean Bosco, Faustino Okello, Pierre Gwa, Daniel Kachamba, Mose Yotamu and Moya Aliya, representing the music of nations such as Uganda, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia.

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.

When men take up arms to go against their brothers, women have to take up gravediggers’ shovels. Ceebla (Fardouza Moussa Egueh, who we also saw in Gravedigger’s Wife), refuses to bargain for the cost of her labour. When her grave finally finds a taker, the revenue logic takes an unexpected twist. The Earth Has Ears is a civil war film without gunfire. It shows how the absurdity of war also turns everyday life at the home front irrational. / MSFF

How’s the Big Everything? Garba asks Nicole. For them, the “Big Everything” encompasses family, politics, History, daily life, the stars, small things, and time passing like the wind. By delving into their memories, at the time of Niger’s independence, we come face to face with the complexity of the present.