Weekend Film Series: Documentary & Drama

A documentary film about the Maasai and Himba tribes, and a romantic drama starring Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams, are the featured films at the ‘Weekend Film Series’ on Sunday, August 19. Milking the Rhino will screen at 3 p.m., while Take This Waltz will screen at 5.15 p.m.

The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba tribe – two of earth’s oldest cattle cultures – are emerging from a century of ‘white man’s conservation’, which threw them off their lands, banned subsistence hunting, and fueled resentment.

Charting the collision of ancient ways with Western expectations, the film offers complex, intimate stories of Africans at the forefront of community-based conservation. The film has won five festival awards, including Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival.

In Take This Waltz, Margot (Williams, nominated for an Academy Award for her role in My Week With Marilyn) is married to Lou (Seth Rogen) but begins to question their relationship when handsome artist Daniel (Luke Kirby) moves in across the street.

Director Sarah Polley’s intelligent, perceptive drama, set in the sweltering humidity of a Toronto summer, is about obsession, the fragility of marriage, and the mystery of true love.

It leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.

Tickets, $15, can be purchased in the Oceans Gift Shop at the BUEI, or by calling 297-7314. The ‘Weekend Film Series’, sponsored by Gosling’s, is a joint production of Bermuda Documentary Film Festival director Duncan Hall and the BUEI.

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