African FILM FESTIVAL New Zealand

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

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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Abderrahman Sissako – un cineaste a l’opera

Premiered at NY Film Festival There aren’t enough words in such a short space to do justice to this extraordinary piece of work. Abderrhamane Sissako, who won an Academy award for his film “Timbuktu”, directs an opera for the first time in his career, and award-winning director Charles Castello makes a documentary about the rehearsals. […]

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HER – a Disintegrated Notion

The idealisation of womanhood, worldwide, is far from the reality of their lives. In many places, women are expected to put the well-being of others in the family before themselves, and patriarchal values deny them control over their education and reproduction. The director proposes that a key issue should be to address structural barriers to […]

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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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Toshret

A short documentary showing the beautiful mountain wilderness of St Catherine in the Sinai desert, a holy place which has always been on the path of the prophets as they crossed between Israel and Egypt, and now a centre of herb and plant research as well as a sanctuary. […]

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If Objects Could Speak

Ousmane Sembene Short Film Award, 2021; Los Angeles Cinematography Award 2020; Nomination:  Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary This short film explores the origins of a mysterious Kenyan object that has been found in the archives of a German museum. The only information about it is that it entered the museum in 1903;  […]

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Murder in Paris

Best documentary, 7th Rustenburg FF; Calgary Black FF; Halifax Black FF In 1988, Dulcie September, a member of the ANC living in Paris, was assassinated as she entered an elevator at her apartment building. The murderer was never found and the crime never investigated properly. Now, in 2021 director Enver Samuel has made a powerful […]

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Wildlife Warriors

Special Jury Recognition, and honours for 10 episodes at Jackson Wild Media Festival, USA We have selected three documentaries together from a unique and inspiring wildlife documentary series, Wildlife Warriors, made for Kenyan TV by a Kenyan film crew and local conservationists, and hosted by award-winning conservationist Paula Kahumbu. Each episode in the series showcases […]

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Above Water

Nominee for Golden Eye, Cannes Houlaye is a 12-year-old girl who lives in the small semi-nomadic settlement of Tatis in Niger, in the region of the Sahel, an arid belt of land running between the Sahara and the tropical zone whose population and livestock is increasingly threatened by climate change and water crisis. Every day […]

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The Africologist: Chronicles of Africa

Traditional storyteller and filmmaker Valerio Lopes, from Cape Verde, has created this highly original, a futuristic documentary on African history, science, and technology. Using both traditional story-telling in its role as a carrier of culture, tradition, and belief, computer graphics, and the results of his own research from the 16 African countries he has visited, […]

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No Simple Way Home

Premiered at Berlin IFF Akuol is the daughter of Rebecca de Mabior, and both are subjects of this very personal film about the family’s connections with the formation of South Sudan and her mother’s continuing vital role in its leadership. Akuol was 16 when her father, leader of the South Sudanese Liberation Movement, was killed […]

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