CCA 4 Saturday 18th October
12.00-1.00 pm

The Mseyas
Gustavo Vizoso
Spain 2007 / 27 Mins

AIDS kills more than two million people every year in Africa. As a result of this epidimic, there are more than 11 million orphans.

This is the story of the Mseyas, orphans from Iringa in Tanzania. Alberina, Maria, Amos and Orsolina live on their own and face a life of struggle without resources.

Object/Subject: Lives in the Footnotes and Margins
Sacha Kahir
Scotland | 2007 | 24 mins

Object / Subject is a whirlwind study of hidden histories and stories centering on Edinburgh, the overdeveloped world's first city of the split personality - home of Jekyll and Hyde, the Scottish Enlightenment and the world's biggest producer of pharmaceutical Heroin.

The film features interviews with survivors of events now pushed to the margins of recent history, including the first woman diagnosed with HIV at Cornton Vale Women's Prison - whose refusal to remain silent led to fellow inmates taking a stand against involuntary testing, the Aids explosion - which nearly wiped out a generation in Edinburgh's housing estates, and the miner's strike - which decimated communities around Edinburgh.

Using stock footage and animation as well as interviews, Object/Subject... examines how the fragments of people's lives connect to dramatic global events and gives a voice to those whose voices are seldom heard.