Platfontein Screening of My Heart of Darkness - Ex-SADF San vets community

Screening conference with reconciliation film My Heart of Darkness at the Cultural Centre at Platfontein, just outside Kimberley, Western Cape, South Africa. Mario Mahonga, spokesmen of the !Kung Bushman at Platfontein and former SADF Staff-Sergeant 101/102 batt. Kaprivi, also one of the participants in the film will mediate a conference taking up post-war issues concerning the San soldiers of Angola & South Africa.

2011 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown

 

My Heart of Darkness in special session 
around the issues of post border war legacy at the 2011 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa July 7-8.  

Marius is invited to participate in a discussions around post border war & ex-conscript issues, a spin-off of preformed venues at the festival. Come meet me there if you interested in my latest film "My Heart of Darkness" co-directed with Staffan Julén (Prize of The Pole), my new film in development"City of Joy-the raped women, their rapist & healers in DRC", discuss latest war trauma issues or just grab a beer.  marius@edenfilm.se  +46-70-259 56 25.

The Festival and related events that comprise our loose and flexible programme are:

• Thursday 7 July 11.00: James Clelland and Paul Morris speaking about “Deeper than Colour” at WordFest (Eden Grove Launch Pad)

• Thursday 7 July 18.30: “Somewhere on the Border” (Victoria Theatre)
  

• Friday 8 July 10.00: Anthony Akerman’s lecture on ”Somewhere on the Border” (Eden Grove Blue Lecture Theatre)
  

• Friday 8 July 13.30: Think!Fest organisers have agreed to an unofficial screening of Marius van Niekerk’s “My Heart of Darkness” in the Eden Grove Blue Lecture Theatre – we will need to move to another venue for the post-screening discussion.
  

• Friday 8 July 15.30: Beginning of semi-private dialogue session in Environmental Education Centre adjoining Eden Grove. Supper will be served at 18.30, after which members of the “Somewhere on the Border” will join the discussions.

Dag Hammarskjöld Seminar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa 13-15 July.

My Heart of Darkness opens The United Nations and Regional Challenges in Africa 50 Years After the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld Seminar.

A Seminar at the University of Pretoria, 13 to 15 July 2011. Organised jointly by the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria and The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation/Uppsala in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden/Pretoria

Wednesday, 13 July
14.30 to 17.00 hrs
Public Film Screening
“My Heart of Darkness”
Followed by a panel discussion
with the filmmaker Marius van Niekerk
and invited discussants

17.00 Refreshments

17.30 hrs
Public Opening
Dag Hammarskjöld’s Legacy:
The United Nations and Africa

Words of Welcome:
Cheryl de la Rey, Rector of the University of Pretoria
Peter Tejler, the Ambassador of Sweden to South Africa
Address:

Hon. Deputy Foreign Minister Marius Fransman
Panel with:
Jan Pronk, Francis Deng, Carlos Lopes, Jan Nordlander, Festus Mogae (tbc)
Moderators:
Maxi Schoeman and Henning Melber

Followed by a light finger supper.

Thursday, 14 July
8.45 hrs Welcoming/Opening Statement (Maxi Schoeman)
9.00 hrs Keynote Address
Henning Melber
Dag Hammarskjöld: Ethics, Solidarity and Global Leadership

Sessions 1
Chairperson: Jan Mutton
9.30 hrs Manuel Fröhlich,
The Role of UN Special Representatives and Envoys in Mediation and Peacekeeping
Comments by Jan Pronk and Francis Deng

10.30 hrs Coffee/Tea

11.00 hrs Alex Obote-Odora

International Criminal Justice in the Shadow of Politics

Comments by Michelo Hansungule

12.00 Laurie Nathan
The SADC Tribunal: regional organisations, human security, human rights, and international law
Comments by Jan Nordlander

13.00 hrs Lunch

14. 00 hrs Erika de Wet
The United Nations Collective Security System in the 21st Century: Increased Decentralization through Regionalization and Reliance on Self-defense
Comments by Ove Bring

15.00 hrs Coffee/Tea

15.30 to 17.00 hrs
Public book launch
Chris Saunders
Dag Hammarskjöld and South Africa
Vasu Gouden/Jannie Malan on African Journal of Conflict Resolution no. 1/2011: “Southern Africa – 50 Years After Hammarskjöld”
Henning Melber on New Routes no. 2/2011:
“Dag Hammarskjöld and the United Nations: Vision and legacy – 50 years later”
Jan Pronk on Development Dialogue no. 56:
“Erskine Barton Childers – For a democratic United Nations and the Rule of Law”

18.00 hrs

Public Evening Roundtable
Mediation, Conflict Prevention, Resolution and Post-conflict Reconstruction
Welcome/Introduction:
Maxi Schoeman
Panel with:
Festus Mogae (tbc) Jan Pronk, Francis Deng, Monica Juma, Carlos Lopes, Dumisani Kumalo, Kingsley Makhubela (tbc)
Moderator:
Henning Melber

Followed by a light finger supper.

Friday, 15 July

9.00 hrs Keynote Address
Ove Bring
Dag Hammarskjöld´s Approach to International Law

Sessions 2
Chairperson:  Siphamandla Zondi
9.30 hrs Cyril Obi, 
West African Regional Security Architecture with special reference to the Cote d’Ivoire
Comments by Roeland van de Geer
10.30 hrs Coffee/Tea Break
11.00 hrs Kwesi Aning,
Conflict Prevention as Regional Challenge: ECOWAS, AU and UN
Comments by Ayanda Ntsaluba (tbc)
12.00 hrs Concluding Session:
Plenary Debate

12. 30 hrs Lunch Break

13.30 hrs

Public Closing Roundtable

Africa and Global Governance:
International Perspectives for Peace, Security and the Rule of Law
Panel with:
Ove Bring, Monica Juma, Jan Pronk, Francis Deng, Ayanda Ntsaluba (tbc)
Moderators:
Maxi Schoeman and Henning Melber

15.00 hrs Coffee/Tea

http://www.dhf.uu.se 

4t European Conference on African Studies - African Engagements: On Whose Terms?

4t European Conference on African Studies - African Engagements: On Whose Terms? 

Uppsala, Sweden 15-18 June, 2011

Screening & debate of My Heart of Darkness 16th April 17.00-19.00, Uppsala University, Ekonomikum, Lecture Hall 3, Uppsala, Sweden

http://www.nai.uu.se/ecas-4/

MY HEART OF DARKNESS - FILM AND PANEL DISCUSSION

FILM AND PANEL DISCUSSION

“TO RECONCILE WITH YOUR ENEMY”

EDEN FILM AND FOLKETS BIO PRESENT

MY HEART OF DARKNESS by Staffan Julén & Marius van Niekerk
Director of Photography - Peter Östlund fsf, Music Composer - Jan Anderson, Editor - Clas Lindberg

MY HEART OF DARKNESS follows Marius van Niekerk and three of his former enemies, from different sides, as they step onto a boat at the mouth of the Kwando River. Marius who was recruited at the age of seventeen into the South African army, later deployed in Namibia and Angola, was forced to leave South Africa into exile in Sweden where he resides and works as a filmmaker. The former soldiers are on a journey back to past battlefields; the sites where they tried to kill each other during apartheid South Africa’s interventions in Namibia and Angola (1975-1992).

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 6.00 P.M. (FILM SCREENING), 7.30 P.M. (PANEL DISCUSSION) AT FYRISBION, SANKT OLOFSGATAN 10, UPPSALA

TICKETS: 75 SEK (65 SEK/STUDENT) / TO BUY TICKETS: 018-15 03 46

Representatives from the Dag Hammarskjöld foundation, The Red Cross Trauma Center and the Swedish Church take part in the following discussion, moderated by Mikael Ohlsson (hosting ”Konflikt” at the Sveriges Radio).

HENNING MELBER(The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation)Henning Melber joined the anti-colonial liberation movement SWAPO of Namibia in 1974. Returning from exile, he became the director of The Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit in Windhoek. In 2000, he took over as research director of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. Since 2006, he is the executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.

ULF GUSTAVSSON(The Red Cross) Ulf Gustavsson is a psychologist and a psychotherapist with a journalistic background. He is the director of the Red Cross Trauma Center in Uppsala where he offers treatment for refugees who have been traumatised by war, torture and abuse.

ELSE BERGLUND(Svenska kyrkan) Else Berglund is a social worker with vast experience from development aid work, including field operations in Sudan and Pakistan. Else works as psycho-social thematic expert of the Swedish Church's humanitarian aid section and has implemented a variety of training courses abroad.

MARIUS VAN NIEKERK(Eden film) Marius van Niekerk, co-director of the film, is a South African filmmaker, photographer and writer. He was forcefully recruited to the South African army during the apartheid time and came in the 80’s to Sweden, where he still resides.

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EDOC10 International Film Festival CUITO QCUADOR May 13-23 2011

EDOC10 International Film Festival CUITO QCUADOR May 13-23 2011

 

TEN YEARS OF EDOC FIRST WEEKEND OF 10 IN QUITO EDOC 

From Friday 13 start of the EDOC functions in Quito in Ochoymedio, incineration, Sala Alfredo Pareja of the CCE and the Junior World. This first weekend will be 56 roles in 6 rooms, forums as well as national and international directors.
May 13 - 23th 2011

My Heart of Darkness Screenings:

S3 Incineration 18th 20.15

S3 Incineration 20th 18.30

http://www.festivaledoc.org/ 

Staffan is attending this years EDOC10 with both MY HEART OF DARKNESS  and LAST CHAPTER screening. See their site for the program. Unfortunately only in Spanish but you can download this amazing translator Google Chrome and translate the whole site in whatever language you want at the link:  http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac&hl=en

Hope you have a great time and may you see many great films & meet great filmmakers. 

See you there.

Marius & Staffan

Swedish Reviews

Go'Kväll 18.15 today, Wednesday, Marius guest on SVT's popular daily magazine program.

Check out Go'Kväll on SVT1 18.15 today, a popular daily magazine program on Swedish Television 1. I am invited to talk about our latest film "My Heart of Darkness. Can also later be seen at SVT Play.

 

My Heart of Darkness/Mitt Mörka Hjärta is a film by the directors Staffan Julén & Marius van Niekerk 2010.

Post Premier & Special Screening of My Heart of Darkness

We had a very successful premier last Friday, full house and very interesting Q&A.  Thanks to all those that came and participated. The mingle afterwards at Snickarbacke 7 was delightful and the Graham Beck bubbly sponsored by Anna Wig at the Prime wine group, super. A very up-beat gallery just around the corner from Bio Zita with very friendly owners. To be recommended. Attended by representatives from the local Souther African associations and embassies. Unfortunately did Mario & Patrick, my companions in the film not get their Visas in time to attend the event thanks to the Schengen Agreement's very restricted rules. We are working on screenings in Angola, Namibia & South Africa this year at film festival and hopefully on TV. We also plan to drive out to villages in the bush with a mobile screening unit. Film team present were directors Marius & Staffan (aslo producer), DoP Peter Östlund,  Music Composer Jan Anderson. 

The Special Screening Saturday well moderated by Micke Ohlsson (SR P1 Konflikt) with representatives from the Angolan, Namibian and South African Associations in Sweden and the directors, me and Staffan on the panel after the screening turned out to be a historical and moving event. The first time in Sweden for the three associations to share a stage of reconciliation.  Paulo Lara and Tony Nguxi flew in from Angola. Amongst the audience were singer Jennifer Ferguson, Mona Salin, Berit & Sten Rylander, Angolan Embassy Manuel Carvajal and many more. A very promising first step for reconciliatory collaboration. Warm thanks to Buca Boavida, Cultural Attaché at the Angolan Embassy in Stockholm for his help and support in arranging this venue.

My Heart of Darkness-Special Screening 9th Apr 2011

FILM AND PANEL DISCUSSION

RECONCILIATION – dare to forgive & love your enemy

Eden film and Folkets bio in collaboration with The South Africa Society in Sweden, The Namibia Society in Sweden and the Angolan Association Kwanza

present

MY HEART OF DARKNESS

followed by a discussion on how to meet and forgive one’s enemy

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 16.00

at Bio Zita, Birger Jarlsgatan 37, Stockholm

Directors Staffan Julén and Marius van Niekerk will take part in the discussion together with the three associations. Moderated by Mikael Olsson (hosting “Konflikt” on Swedish Radio).

Tickets: 75 SEK

To buy tickets: www.zita.se or phone: 08-23 20 20

MY HEART OF DARKNESS follows Marius van Niekerk and three of his former enemies, from different sides, as they step onto a boat at the mouth of the Kwando river deep within the African interior. Marius who was recruited at the age of seventeen into the South African army, later deployed in Namibia and Angola, was forced to leave South Africa into exile in Sweden where he resides and works as a filmmaker. They are on a journey back to past battlefields, the sites where they as youngsters, tried to kill each other during apartheid South Africa’s interventions in Namibia & Angola (1975-1994).

My Heart of Darkness - Swedish Premier 8th April 2011

FOLKETS BIO OCH EDENFILM
HAR NÖJET ATT INBJUDA TILL PREMIÄREN AV

MITT MÖRKA HJÄRTA / MY HEART OF DARKNESS

EN FILM AV MARIUS VAN NIEKERK OCH STAFFAN JULÉN
MED MARIUS VAN NIEKERK, PATRIC JOHANNES OCH MARIO MAHONGA
I NÄRVARO AV REGISSÖRERNA OCH DE MEDVERKANDE

FREDAG 8 APRIL

Mingel med vin och tilltugg från 17.45
på Snickarbacken 7 (runt hörnet från biografen)
Filmen börjar 18.45 på biografen Zita, på Birger Jarlsgatan 37
Efter filmen är alla välkomna att ta ett glas och lite tilltugg i Eden Films lokaler i Liljeholmen, Lövholmsbrinken 2b, T-Liljeholmen (bredvid Färgfabriken, karta bifogas).
Inbjuden gäller för två personer. OBS! Begränsat antal platser.
Svara senast 5 april till osa@folketsbio.se
Ditt svar kommer att bekräftas med mail.

TEMPO Documentary Film Festival Award, Stockholm 08th-13th March 2011.

Screening dates:

Fri 11/3, 15.00 Victoria 2
Sun 13/3, 15.50 Victoria 7

We have invited the Ambassadors of the SADC countries and South African Ambassador Honourable Zeph Makgetla and his wife Neva to the screening Friday 11th. He's returning to South Africa end of this month so would be a good opportunity to meet and say goodbye. 

Come and join us for a drink at the opening party/Invigningsfest Friday18:00 at Rival.  

Göteborg International Film Festival Update - Last Screening

We had a packed last screening on Saturday 5/2 10.00 Bergakungen 4,  with 89 seats sold in a 116 seat theatre. Göteborg, an overall successful festival with a warm, receptive & sympathetic audience.   

Next our film will be screened in competition at the TEMPO Documentary Film Festival in Stockholm in March  and will open in Swedish cinemas in April. Thanks for your support. See you there. Marius

The Göteborg International Film Festival Screenings Updates

Our Monday 31st screening at Haga1 of "My Heart of Darkness" at Göteborg International Film Festival was sold out. A great audience nearly all stayed for Q&A's. After nearly two hours the host asked us to leave because they wanted to lock up. Exactly my intention of how the film can work. Our next step would be to work in prisons (where many war vets end up), amongst refugees and war veterans in general & peace keeping forces. 

We have one more screening on Saturday 5/2 10.00 Bergakungen 4.  If you in Gothenburg then take the time and see it and share afterwards in the Q&A's. We really feel that is the most important part of any festival.  

Thanks to all of you that already attended the screenings  and thanks for sharing. Marius

My Heart of Darkness - Official Trailer 2011

Nominated best Swedish documentary at the Göteborg International Film Festival 2011

MY HEART OF DARKNESS are nominated for the Dragon Award for best Swedish feature-length documentary film at the 34th Göteborg International Film Festival 28 Jan-07 Feb 2011. 

Our screenings are: 

Fri 28/1 17.30 Bergakungen 4, 

Mon 31/1 20.00 Haga 1, 

Sat. 5/2 10.00 Bergakungen 4. 

Hope to see you there. Marius & Staffan

In Competition IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 17th-28th Nov 2010.

Great to be at IDFA. Lots of excellent reviews and meetings with  fantastic fellow film-makers.