Documentary Feature

Afrikan By Way of American

Saturday | 11AM | Studio 2

45 minutes / 2021

Documentary feature

Director: Theo M Moore, II

Country: United States

The Hiztorical Vision Productions (HVP) team, with the assistance of the Africatown community, tells the story of the legacy and future of the Africatown community in Mobile, Alabama. The film highlights many unsung heroes that played a pivotal role and contributing to this unique African settlement.

Jeanne Duval, Belle d’Abandon

Sunday | 2PM | Studio 1

44 minutes / 2022

Documentary feature length

Director: Karine Edowiza

Country: France

In Paris, who remembers Jeanne Duval? Let us look for it, in the streets of Paris, in the poems of Charles Baudelaire, in the paintings of artists. Let us give a voice to the one who shared seventeen years of the poet’s life.

Operation Lights OutThe Story of Canairelief

Sunday | 5:15PM | Theatre

90 minutes / 2021

Documentary feature length

Director: Angela Onuora

Country: Canada

A historical documnentary project about the Biafran Airlift – a massive and epochal Non-Governmental War Relief Effort, and the specific role played by CANAIRELIEF (led mainly by members of The Presbyterian Church in Canada), in contributing to saving an estimated 1 million lives.

The Zone

Friday | 4PM | Studio 2

78 minutes / 2021

Documentary feature length

Director: Tovoniaina Rasoanaivo

Country: Madagascar

In Antananarivo, a hundred young boys are imprisoned in a specific area for minors. A cinema workshop is organized there. The young prisoners develop film ideas, they tell their stories.

Haiti Is A Nation Of Artists

Saturday | 1PM | Theatre

50 minutes / 2022

Documentary feature

Director: Jacquil Constant

Country: United States

Haiti Is A Nation Of Artists tells the story of Haitian artists creating transformational art after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. The documentary depicts the humanity of Haitian culture through the lens of a HaitianAmerican filmmaker who seeks to uplift the rich diversity of Haiti and its historical legacy.

No Simple Way Home

Sunday | 3:30PM | Studio 1

85 minutes / 2022

Documentary feature

Director: Akuol de Mabior

Country: South Sudan

In East Africa, Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior is known as the mother of South Sudan. The country gained independence in 2011 and has been at war for most of its short history. Rebecca’s greatest fear is that her husband, John Garang, along with millions of South Sudanese people died in vain. After years in exile, a fragile peace agreement plants the possibility for her to do something about the precarious situation in the country. Meanwhile, Rebecca’s daughter Akuol is struggling to come to terms with what it means to call herself South Sudanese because she was born and raised in exile. She decides to follow her mother from behind the camera and is forced to come to terms with her own fears.

When Women Speak

Saturday | 7:30PM | Studio 1

105 minutes / 2022

Documentary feature length

Director: Aseye Kokui Tamakloe

Country: Ghana

When Women Speak is a documentary film that challenges perceptions that Ghanaian women’s activism around existential, and political issues are of more recent or western origin. The film, shot entirely in Ghana, traces a cohort of 16 women who came of age in the 1960s & 1970s and catalogues their experiences, in their own words, as Ghana passed through periods of single-party, military and multi-party rule.

The Bronze Men of Cameroon

Sunday | 2PM | Theatre

55 minutes / 2020

Documentary feature length

Director: Florence Ayisi

Country: Cameroon

The Bronze Men of Cameroon’ is an intimate portrait of a community of bronze artisans in Foumban, the ‘City of Arts’. Bronze casting is a valued cultural heritage of the Bamum People in the Western Region of Cameroon. This film presents bronze craftsmen at work. It presents rare insights into their expertise in producing unique bronze sculptures that are inscribed with symbolic images and narratives of collective memory, identity and the Bamum character.

Silence... on Tourne

Saturday | 1PM | Studio 1

69 minutes / 2022

Documentary feature length

Director: Rita El Quessar

Country: Morocco

The camera is ready and the interview begins. Azzeddine and Abderrahmane, two men from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, are shooting their first film. They interview people with a difficult past who have agreed to speak out. In front of the camera, these people talk about their lives, which have been tainted by the prison environment and violence. They tell their regrets, their shame, the flaws that allowed them to build themselves and, finally, to start dreaming. Skatt is a story within a story. An invisible camera that spent a few months in a rehabilitation centre to capture the improbable encounter between two young people who are trying to dream against all odds.

No U-Turn

Saturday | 2:30PM | Studio 1

94 minutes / 2022

Documentary feature

Director: Ike Nnabue

Country: Nigeria

Ike Nnaebue, a renowned Nollywood director, goes back to the path he took at the dawn of his adult life when he wanted to reach Europe. In 1998. Ike decided to leave with his three friends to try the great adventure. Their plan was simple: head for Cotonou in Benin, then Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, until Tangiers in Morocco, the gateway to Europe. But in Bamako, an encounter with a stranger who told him about the dangers of the road led to the end of his journey. Ike never made it to Europe. Returning to Nigeria without money was not an option, so he spent two years in The Gambia working in some theatre and film productions. Today, when social networks and television flood us with images of servitude, pain and atrocities that make it impossible to ignore the dangers of the road, Ike Nnaebue embarks on this journey again to try to understand what drives so many young African men and women to migrate today. A road movie through the landscapes and cultures of West Africa that puts into perspective the realities experienced by young people in Africa today. By recounting their journey, the director brings his own to life in his first feature-length documentary.

Animation

Emily And The Panhandler

Sunday | 2PM | Studio 2

8 Minutes / 2022

Animation

Director: Joseph Kitone

Country: Uganda

When a panhandler is ignored by a hopeful teacher, he decides to give her a lesson in respect.

Kasi Riders

Sunday| 2PM | Studio 2

6 minutes / 2021

Animation

Director: Myles Mlombo

Country: South Africa

Thuso, a teen engineering wiz, has recently lost her father - a mechanical engineer with a knack for inventing. While packing his old work garage she discovers his latest unfinished project - a top secret interactive robot car. Still reeling from her loss Thuso decides to finish what her father started. Can she do it?

OPAL

Friday | 2PM | Studio 1

85 minutes / 2021

Animation

Director Alan Bidard

Country: Martinique

Once upon a time a magic kingdom where summer lasted forever and where the animals and the inhabitants were immortal. The source of all magic was a young princess called Opal. Legends said that her joy would bring wonders and prosperity to the kingdom. But her sadness would only bring chaos and darkness…

The Pyramid

Saturday | 11AM | Studio 1

7 minutes / 2021

Animation

Director: Mohamed Ghazala

Country: Egypt

An ancient Egyptian tried to build an upside-down pyramid.

For Tigray

Saturday | 11AM | Studio 1

4 minutes / 2021

Animation

Director: Gabrielle Tesfaye

Country: Ethiopia

On November 4th, 2020, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed declared a genocidal war on Tigray, the northernmost regional state of Ethiopia. His administration has limited and blocked access to electricity, aid, food, and water for millions of Tigrayan civilians. Through a conflict so saturated in political debates, For Tigray looks through the lenses of the people. From life before the war, and the collective future on the horizon.

Moremi: The Epic Battle

Sunday | 2PM | Studio 2

25 minutes / 2022

Animation

Directors: Faith Olatunde

Olasehinde, Oreoluwa Timothy David | Country: Nigeria

Moremi: The Epic Battle is a 3D animated short film that relives and reimagines the legendary act of Queen Moremi of the Ife Kingdom in Nigeria, in a form that is presentable to our young generation.

It’s a story of Love

It’s a story of Courage

It’s a story of Sacrifice

It’s a folklore reimagined.

She Flies Again

Sunday | 2PM | Studio 2

14 minutes / 2022

Animation

Director: Joy Shannon

Country: United States

In the colorful world of talking seagulls, She Flies Again centers around a young, Black seagull with dreams and wings, so shattered that she stops flying. Years later, her passion to pursue her dreams is reignited and with wounded wings and all, she somehow flies again!

The Underestimated

Villain

Saturday | 11AM | Studio 1

6 minutes / 2021

Animation Director: Comfort Arthur Country: Ghana

Many Ghanaians are aware of this night-biter living amongst them, yet they still choose to ignore the danger. Anopheles, nicknamed Ghana’s smallest serial killer, gives a self-indulgent speech mocking humans for how they so easily let her control their lives.

Three Teaspoons Of Sugar

Saturday | 11AM | Studio 1

14 minutes / 2019

Animation Directors: Kabelo “Cabblow”

Maaka, Dr Tshepo P. Maaka

Country: South Africa

In a household where meal times are a delightful feast full of bonding, fellowship & good eating, 3 members of this tight knit family are diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus. 3 Teaspoons of Sugar chronicles their individual experiences living with Diabetes - the highs, lows, defeats, victories and lessons. Inspired by real events and real people.