African FILM FESTIVAL New Zealand

WELLINGTON 27 OCTOBER 2022 TO 30 OCTOBER 2022 | AUCKLAND 24 NOVEMBER 2022 TO 4 DECEMBER 2022

COUPE! UNE HISTOIRE DECALEE

This is a very inspiring film for youth as the philosophy of Coupe Decale is “Work Hard, Have Fun and Show Off” because you deserve it. In 2002, armed with computers and music software, a group of young Ivorians living in France, and led by the charismatic Douk Saga created a movement called “Coupé Decale” […]

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Maasai Remix

Maasai Remix follows three Maasai individuals who in different settings – the United Nations, a Tanzanian village, and an American university – face challenges to their community by drawing strength from local traditions, modifying them when necessary, and melding them with new resources. […]

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Freedom is Not Free

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling […]

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The Shore Break

On South Africa’s stunning Wild Coast, the Pondo people have tended their traditional way of life for centuries. Nonhle, a young local eco-tour guide, is a staunch supporter of her people and the endangered environment on which their livelihood and culture depend. Her cousin Madiba, a local entrepreneur, is fully supportive of an Australian titanium-mining […]

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SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembéne, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE!, a feature-length documentary, tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema”, the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give […]

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Fadma

The central character is tourist guide Fadma, or “man and a half” – as she is known and appreciated by all in Marrakech Jemaa el Fna. She has raised her two sons alone after the death of her husband 25 years before. She takes great pride in the success of her elder son Ahmed, a […]

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Captain Thomas Sankara

A portrait comprised of material from the archives of Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. Through his desire to liberate his country and transform his fellow citizens’ way of thinking by questioning the world order and challenging the authority of those with power at that time, he made […]

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TIGERNUT(Mousso Faso)

A worldwide trade war has broken out over the control and distribution of the new healthy Super Food, tiger nuts. An investigation uncovers a plot of international corruption and abuses around the production of tiger nuts by European and American companies exploiting African resources. “Tigernut” shows the encouraging response of thousands of families resisting this […]

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Noma

Nomaliphathwe Gwele, a young single mother of two, disabled infant, decides to improve her life. She joins a group in a land occupation action, to build her own shack in the new slum, risking violent evictions. […]

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Nobody’s Died Laughing

A documentary on the work of satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, Nobody’s Died Laughing is quietly inspiring. It tells the story of one man who rolled up his sleeves and got on with the job, rather than just griping about everything that is bad. The story of a legendary man from an extraordinary country and the phenomenal […]

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Bigger Than Africa

When the slave boats docked in the Americas, Cuba and the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures and religions arrived with their passengers. But not all of them survived the plantations. Los Angeles-based director Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye travels through the U.S, West Africa, Brazil and Central America, to map the widespread influence of the Yoruba of northwest […]

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Burkinabè Rising

A new documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso. A small, landlocked country in West Africa,Burkina Faso is home to a vibrant community of artists and engaged citizens, who provide an example of the type of political change that can be achieved when people come together. It is an […]

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