AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL NEW ZEALAND

JULY 18, 2024 TO JULY 28, 2024

Fight like a girl (Rwanda/Congo DR)

This film is inspired by Congolese boxing legend Balezi “Kibomango” Bagunda’s all female boxing-team that he created as an antidote to the sexual violence and endemic poverty that too-many women in his country endure. A young Congolese woman forced to work in an illegal mineral mine escapes her captors and finds a new life for […]

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A dream of foot and leg (Egypt)

A film about pain, humiliation, determination and discovery. Their lives come together through a random series of events. Physical defect at birth, events through acts of kindness, jealousy, attraction, and a premeditated accident. She loves to dance and is poised to enroll into a dance competition that could change her life. He hates dancing due […]

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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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The Envoy of God (Niger)

Screenings/Awards: FESPACO 2023 Fatima, a young girl of 12 is taken from her mother by armed rebels during a normal day at the market. We see Fatima being subjected to funeral rites by older women(strangers) in preparation to accomplish the work of God. Fatima , this  randomly chosen  “envoy of God “ is dropped off […]

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Siblings (T’egbon T’aburo) (Nigeria)

From multi-awarding-winning director Orire Nwani Moji comes the story of Moji, a  mother  who has lost her son Yemi in a tragic accident years ago. The story opens showing a mother still grieving the loss of her son but trying her best to continue with daily life. One night, her estranged sister Mosunmola, appears at […]

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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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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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Mawbe

Mawbe, a disabled mechanic in a wheelchair, teaches the trade to his four young mechanic apprentices, and they form a close bond. One day, an accident to Mawbe challenges them to find extra solidarity and ingenuity to help him. […]

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Red Pen

A teacher in the mountains tries to show his children the meaning of democracy in class, while a supposedly democratic election campaign is simultaneously taking place in a nearby village. […]

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’76

Nigeria’s middle belt, 1976. Respected army officer Captain Joseph Dewa and his wife, Suzy, who is from the south eastern part of Nigeria, eagerly anticipate their first child. Suzy’s family adamantly disapproves of her intercultural marriage. At the same time, rebellious soldiers on Joseph’s base attempt to recruit him into a coup plot to assassinate […]

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