AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL NEW ZEALAND

SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 TO SEPTEMBER 28, 2025

Sira (Burkina Faso)

Screenings/Awards: Best NARRATIVE FEATURE (World) and BEST FEMAL DIRECTOR, NARRATIVE FEATURE at NY Film Festival 2023, Second best price at FESPACO 2023, Berlinale 2023, Cannes 2023, Toronto International Film Festival 2023, NY Film Festival This is an amazing film from Apolline Traore, who is, no doubt one of the best filmmakers from the Continent at the […]

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Choose me (Amchilini)(Chad)

Screenings/Awards: FESPACO 2023, Sheffield DocFest 2023 The Director Allamine kadar Kora visits his mother’s village on the edge of the Chadian desert where there has been a drought. The male village elders and religious figures believe that the source of this calamity is caused by all the unmarried women in the village. The men convene […]

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Africa United (Rwanda/Congo DR/Congo)

Media Critics: “Africa United reveals the other side of a continent”, The Guardian UK It’s not about you. It’s not about me. It is about us. We are a team. Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their ultimate dream – to take part in the opening […]

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Mvera (Kenya)

Awards/Screening: NYALI CINEMAX MOMBASA Oscars 2023, ANGA CINEMAS NAIROBI Oscars 2023 Corrupt leadership plunges a community into poverty. Against her grandmother’s advice, Mvera pursues her quest for a better life, echoing her mother’s journey to America. Mvera, yearning to escape and find her missing mother, seizes an opportunity offered by Thabiti’s company, only to discover […]

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A country called Ghana (Ghana)

Awards/Screening: Premiered in Ghana May 2024 This is an important film that shows how many of the cultural heritages of Africa has been stolen and taken out of the Continent. It is an important story told using comedy. Touted as one of the most anticipated films to come out of a Ghana/Nigerian collaboration in terms […]

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Di Den La Messagère (Mali)

Awards/Screening: FESPACO 2023, Canada Vues d’Afrique Montréal 2024 This is a great educational documentary for bee lovers, children and almost everyone who is interested in protecting our environment and the biodiversity.  Di Den means bee in Bambara. Di Den, a little bee–nature’s storyteller… In Mali, she’s a healer, messenger, warrior & more. While the Malian […]

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The Blue Penny (Mauritius)

Awards/Screening: Indo French International Film Festival, Chicago International Indie Film Festival, Life Art Festival Los Angeles, Stockholm City Film Festival, Greece International Film Festival, Girona Sun Film Fest, Canada Vues d’Afrique Montréal, Built around the iconic Mauritian stamp, The Blue Penny is a thriller with complex characters. Dating from the 19th century, the ‘Blue Penny’ […]

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African Moot (South Africa)

Awards/Screening: Best Documentary, Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2022 Every year, over a hundred of the most talented law students from across the African continent gather in a different capital city to compete at the prestigious African Human Rights Moot Competition, the largest mock court competition in Africa. At the competition, these young aspiring lawyers act […]

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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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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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Flatland

Opening film of Berlin Panorama Section, selected for Toronto IFF Natalie, her beloved horse Oumie and best friend Poppy (heavily pregnant) are on the run in the desert Karoo region after a killing on Natalie’s wedding night. At the same time police officer Beauty, with her own parallel story to tell, is setting out to […]

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