The project was at once sweeping and serious.
At once sweeping and intimate, both moving and angry, simultaneously historical and contemporary, it has followed in the distinguished footsteps of BBC series such as Boys from the Blackstuff".
The films are at once sweeping and intimate, offering portrayals of family upheavals and vast narratives that set characters against the sins of transgression and tumult of change, including Hungary's entry, "Son of Saul", directed by Laszlo Nemes, which unfolds through the eyes of a Jewish slave laborer who herds fellow Jews to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
But Rwandan-backed rebels did it once before, sweeping away the long-serving dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, and placing Mr Kabila's elephantine father, Laurent, in office.
(Another Tomasson work is on the weekend mixed bill.) They all seemed earnest, musical, well crafted and a little bland, though once again sweeping judgments based on galas are dangerous.
He was a humble man who couldn't stand watching his own performances, and even when he became famous, rich and powerful, he eschewed the trappings of stardom, preferring instead to do things for himself; he was once discovered sweeping the street in front of his studio.
Julia was accused by the family of being frivolous and unreliable— she never enjoyed household chores— and was once seen sweeping the kitchen floor with a pair of knickers on her head.
Hand washing with sand was done once after sweeping the floor and yard.
Its windows, three to a floor, once had sweeping views of New York Harbor — out across church spires and wooden piers, steam ferries and sailing ships, to the orchards and farms of Brooklyn.
Its windows, three to a floor, once had sweeping views of New York Harbor out across church spires and wooden piers, steam ferries and sailing ships, to the orchards and farms of Brooklyn.
Mr Juma thinks the day is not far off when such technology, combined with ground-based monitoring, will help Africans measure trends in deforestation, soil erosion and climate change, and assess the effects on their local environment.Make a startThat is at once a sweeping vision and a modest one.
