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Vertical City
World Premiere Watch trailerAvijit Mukul Kishore | India | 34 mins
A visual essay on the architecture of contemporary Bombay. The State imagined these constructions as the realisation of an urban utopia, but in the far suburb of the city residents from slums are given free houses in decrepit and dysfunctional high-rise building complexes. A occurrence only too frequent in too many suburbs of too many cities.
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Ghettomotto
World PremiereIzzy Brown | 47 mins
A phone call from the front line of post-election riots in Kenya opens the story of Timothy Mwaura, a ghetto poet and rapper who gives an eye-witness account of the chaos and tribal tension that surrounds him. Ghettomotto follows Tim from the dirty streets of Kangemi, a ghetto in Nairobi, to the land of his parents and ancestors, as he rediscovers the roots, culture, and politics of his people, and searches for peace and understanding amidst war-torn Africa. This journey is framed by spoken word and musical pieces performed by Tim and other local hip-hop artists from the ghettos of Nairobi.
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