On Wednesday we went over to a little school where our friend Will Le Le works. Since the earthquake all the schools are shut,  but this one takes place under some tarpaulins in a yard and is run by volunteers – mostly local young people.  The children come from the camps in the neighbourhood…This was our first experience where the audience have just been kids – at the camps and even at the hospital on Tuesday night we usually end up with the little kids at the front, the older kids behind them …  and then the majority of the audience ends up being adults standing at the back. Here the children definitely felt like they owned the space, and there was a total party atmosphere… Here’s how the evening went – First we took some photos of the audience and projected them … to huge cheers and laughter. And then …

The Magic Horse- one of Lotte Reineger’s magical silhouette films  –   A fairytale set  in Baghdad.   The English dialogue was translated by John Adam on the mic.Best moment of improvised dialogue (in Kreyol) – ” then the prince met the princess..ok, in a moment the princess is going to arrive…  hey everyone Relax!  she’s going to appear in a moment ! ”

Ti Sentaniz – Kreyol language animation about a little girl who is an unpaid servant for an abusive rich woman and her daughter. Sadly not a fairytale ;  this form of modern domestic slavery is not uncommon in Haiti. Written and narrated by the late great Haitian poet, humourist and raconteurMaurice Sixto, We can’t find it on the internet, but there’s a “Making of …here

Message from Josh Sundquist, the Canadian paralympic ski racer, who lost one of his legs to cancer at the age of 10 This is a great video (made by the mighty Sinema anba Zetwal) pledging solidarity with Haitian kids who have undergone amputations since the earthquake, and shows Canadian and Haitian amputees playing football …

you can see the Kreyol language version that we show … here
La Belle Fille et Le Sorciere One of our tried and tested audience favourites. (lots of magicians and sorcerers in tonight’s programme… and finally the main feature – Kirikou et la Sorcier. Michel Ocelot’s animated feature film based on an West African folk tale. We’d recommend this film to everyone, whatever your age is…  But then the screen went….generator problems…. we got it going a couple of times…..  but after the third time the generator cut out and the  projector stopped we had to call it a night.The kids didn’t seem phased by this though… an impromptu song and dance session got going,you can hear a bit of it here –party2 and everyone went off smiling and laughing into the night…