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Dear colleagues and friends,
Taking up the opportunity of the visit of filmmaker Idrissou Mora-Kpai, we
are pleased to invite you for a screening of his latest documentary.
Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday 5 May 2011, 17.30 pm
INDOCHINE in the Footsteps of a Mother
2011, 71 minutes
Followed by Q&A with the director Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Benin
Royal Anthropological Institute
50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT
(North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French
Theatre Book shop)
The event is free please confirm your attendance if possible by email to:
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A powerful, prize winning documentary at this year¹s FESPACO, Indochine is
concerned with the fate of Africans who fought in the Indochina wars during
the 1950s. A number of African soldiers took Vietnamese wives and numerous
mixed-race children were born. At the end of the war the colonial army
ordered all black children to be repatriated to West Africa. Abandoned in
orphanages, those who had neither mother nor father were put up for mass
adoption, as was the case with Christophe. He long avoided facing the scars
and identity problems left by the sudden separation from his mother and
homeland. By encouraging Christophe to undertake a journey into his own
past, the film opens a little-known chapter of the Indochina war.
Idrissou Mora-Kpai was born in Benin in 1967. He studied film and television
directing at the Babelsberg Institute of Film and Television (Potsdam). He
made several short films, including ³Ausländer² (³Foreigner², 1995) and
³Fake Soldiers² (1999). Idrissou Mora Kpai¹s documentary film ³Si-Gueriki,
la reine Mère³(2002) was shown at the festivals in Lussas, Numar and
Chartago, among other places. 2005 followed "Arlit - deuxième Paris "(Arlit,
the Second Paris). Kpais lives and works in Germany and Paris and founded
his own production company in 2002.
It would be a pleasure to meeting you at this occasion.
And a swift reminder: the early bird booking rates for the 12th RAI Film
Festival will finish on 15 May!
With very best wishes
Susanne Hammacher
Film Officer | Festival Manager
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The Royal Anthropological Institute
50 Fitzroy Street
London W1T 5BT
UK
tel +44-(0)20-7387 0455
fax +44-(0)20-7388 8817
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http://www.therai.org.uk
Note: EARLY BIRD BOOKING RATES until 15 May 2011!
The 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film at UCL in London,
23-26 June 2011: www.raifilmfest.org.uk
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