AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL NEW ZEALAND

JULY 18, 2024 TO JULY 28, 2024

Nakupenda (I love you) (Tanzania)

Screening/Awards: Tanzania Film Festival & Awards – 2022 – 2023, Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) – 2023, Zanzibar International Film Festival – 2023 In the twilight of their lives, fate reunites two aging souls who shared a profound connection in their youth. Separated by circumstance and societal pressures, they now find themselves confronted with […]

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Safari in Conakry (Guinea)

Two very different police officers must go on a mission to try to dismantle a mafia organization. They meet Sira and FC, two independent female journalists who denounce the corruption put in place by this organization. This quartet, despite differences and tensions in the way they each carry out their profession, will attack these criminals […]

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See me (Zimbabwe)

See Me is a film honouring real life stories. It is a collaborative effort from 5 friends, based on research from real life stories about the hardship HIV Positive young people went through during COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe. Using the 6 pillars of creativity: Film, Poetry, Music, Photography, Visuals and Dance, the film takes us […]

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Tooth for Tooth (Senegal)

Awards/Screening: Premiered at FESPACO2023 and NY African Film Festival Tooth for Tooth is a film about a civil servant (Augustine) who immigrates to Senegal from Burkina Faso to seek better opportunities in Senegal. Life turns upside down for Augustine after he loses his job as a civil servant because of budget cuts and severe austerity […]

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Tug of War

Tanzania’s official submission to the 95th Academy Awards; Premiered at Toronto IFF; New Directors’ Competition – Special Jury Prize, Seattle IFF; Nominee for New Voices/New Visions; Palm Springs IFF; Durban IFF An aesthetically gorgeous film, set and shot on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania, Tug of War is based on the […]

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The Citizen

Transilvania FF 2017, Zurich FF 2017, Shanghai IFF 2018, critic’s pick for NY Times Wilson is a middle-aged African refugee who has been in Hungary for years and is trying to get his citizenship papers in the hope of a new life in his adoptive country. However, he keeps failing the citizenship exams. He works […]

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Lingui – the Sacred Bonds

Best International Feature Film at 94 th Academy Awards; Chad’s selected entry and nominee for Palme d’Or at Cannes; and 8 other awards With ‘Lingui – the Sacred Bonds’, director Saleh-Haroun has crafted a beautiful, subtle, and gently uplifting testament to the universal human quality of ‘Lingui’. In Chad, Lingui is a concept that refers […]

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The Gravedigger’s Wife

Golden Stallion of Yennega Award, FESPACO; Africa Movie Academy Award for best actor in a leading role; AMAA for Best Film 2021; Jussi Award for Best Music 2022; Jussi Award for best costume design, best makeup, best production design 2021; AMAA for best film in an African language. Middle-aged Guled, working in the slums of […]

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Otiti

Brazil FF Otiti, a talented seamstress working towards a fashion show is plagued by emotional reserve and a general hesitancy around commitment. Her chance meeting with a new customer reveals that she is in fact the abandoned daughter of a wealthy man, and she goes to meet him in search of answers to her life. […]

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Fish Out Of Water

‘Fish Out Of Water’ is a local feature film starring Namibian model and reality TV personality, Maria Nepembe and the film ‘Katutura’ lead, actress and socialite Tjuna Kauapirurua. The film narrates the story of Maila, a young woman who sets off from the rural areas to Luderitz, hoping to land a job at the fish […]

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You Will Die at Twenty

Condemned to an early death from birth, young Muzamil waits despairingly for the day he will turn 20 and die. His father, grief-stricken by the holy prophecy, has already abandoned him, while his mother mourns her son in the only way she knows how – to protect him from the world. Hope flickers in the […]

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Obsolescence

In an electronic garbage dump in Africa, there is still a child who hopes to restore the splendour of the past to his village. An elderly witch with whom he lives will help him to achieve it through a small seed, triggering a series of events that interconnect past and present, revealing to the child […]

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