BLIND EYE
Dir: Cathy Randall & Rebecca Jones
5 mins, Australia, 2003

When University student Mitch becomes an unwitting accomplice to a *Koori kid”s crime his values are put to the test.  The politics of skin are not so black and white when you have to save your own!

ICA CINEMA 2: SUNDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER, 8.30PM

DISTANCE
Dir: Sechaba Morojele
25 minutes, USA, 2000.

What happens when a brother gets back home from a business trip and finds his wife in bed with another man?

ICA CINEMA 2: SATURDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM

SOAP AND ROSES
Dir: Rae Shaw
30 mins, USA, 2003.

Soap and Roses tells the story of Raymond, a janitor from Chicago who, during his off hours volunteers at a local community arts centre run by a young artist.  When a series of turbulent events occur, Raymond strikes out at the person he most admires, and thereafter begins his struggle to resolve the consequence of an act he cannot reconcile.

ICA CINEMA 2: SATURDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER, 8.30PM

BELLA
Dir: Deidre Gavin 
20 mins, USA, 2002.

It seems as though there was a sequel to When Stella Got Her Groove Back (not!). Check out this new spin on the love story between an older woman and a younger man.

ICA CINEMA 1: SUNDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER, 8.30PM

RESTORE 
Dir: Hakeem Smith
13 mins, USA, 2000

Donovan Taylor, a young man in desperate need of a job. This need has clouded his vision. Coach Cecil Barnes (Max Julien aka Goldie) who died six months earlier, is standing right in front of Taylor asking for time and effort, without any apparent reward in waiting. †Donovan, in short, is asked to open his eyes.

ICA CINEMA 1: MONDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM

NOTEBOOKS AND UNLADYLIKE THOUGHTS
Dir: Paloma Etienne
12 mins, Holland, 2002.

This film is a visual adaptation of Bunmie Ogunsiji”s autobiographical Opal Poem in which the writer explores issues surrounding her sexual independence and creative identity. It is an interdisciplinary piece that combines performance poetry with stylised imaging to take the audience on an imaginative journey through the main events in the life of a young writer.

ICA CINEMA 2: MONDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM

BROWN GIRL
Dir: Leanne Rahman
9 minutes, UK, 2003

Brown Girl explores the experiences, thoughts and feelings of a youngster being raised in the Caribbean with a violent father.

ICA CINEMA 1: TUESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER, 4.30PM 

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A SINGLE ROSE
Dir: Hanelle Culpepper
USA, 2003, 19 minutes

Set in the rural early 20th century South, Rose, an African-American beauty, has achieved her lifelong goal of an easy life of luxury and riches, but at a price ñ a husband who is rarely home. Yearning for attention, Rose frequently fills the void singing at a nearby juke joint. Eventually, Rose finds the strength to give up the luxury and riches for a more fulfilling life. Unfortunately it”s a lesson she learns too late.

MAN MADE
Dir: Erma Elzy-Jones
15 mins, USA, 2003

After setting a tasty trap for her unfaithful boyfriend, a young woman takes a very enterprising approach to finding a new man.

SILENCE
Dir: Mateen O. Kemet
23 mins, USA, 2002

A troubled 16-year-old girl living in the Bronx examines the cycle of abuse that exists within a dysfunctional family. Powerful, poetic & in your face.

SEBASTIAN’S PEN
Dir: Jamie Rhodes
24 mins, USA, 2003

A magazine reporter, writing an expose on child pornography on the internet discovers a mysterious pen! †

ICA CINEMA 2: TUESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM

UBUNTU’S WOUNDS (SOUTH AFRICA/USA, 2002)
Directed by Sechaba Morojele, Running time - 32 mins.

The story of one man's disturbing emotional journey as he tries to come to terms with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's decision to grant amnesty to the person responsible for his wife's death

ICA CINEMA 1: WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER, 8.30PM

SONNY LISTENING
Dir: Sheldon Candis
15 mins, USA, 2003

An isolated boy frequently finds himself bullied on the school playground.  After another brutal butt kicking, he wanders aimlessly until he stumbles in an abandoned gym.  Squeezing through a rusty door, he meets caretaker Nick ìGolden Glovesî Archibald, who teachers him the fundamentals of boxing and the most important lesson of all listening to your heart.

ICA CINEMA 2: WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER, 8.30PM

VOICE OF THE FACELESS
Dir: Rita Michel
15 mins, USA, 2003

The youth are our future but far too often they are not given a chance to speak on issues that are important to them and their future.  Voice Of The Faceless gives a group of young black kids ranging from 10 to 23, an opportunity to share their humanity with the audience.

As they look at September 11th and their future, we see something lacking in much of the today”s coverage of world affairsÖ. we see hope.

ICA CINEMA 2: THURSDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER, 4.30PM

THE DATE
Dir: Roderick D. Giles, (USA, 2000),12 mins.

This 12-minute comedy stars Wendell Pierce, notable for his roles in such films as Waiting to Exhale and Get on the Bus, as a naive restaurant patron whose blind date is not quite what he expects.

PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA: SUNDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER, 8.30PM