Akasha

DURATION: 78min | LANGUAGE: Arabic | YEAR: 2018 COUNTRIES: Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany | GENRE: Comedy

SYNOPSIS: Adnan is a Sudanese revolutionary who is considered a war hero. His love for his AK47 rifle is equalled only by his feelings for Lina, his long-suffering sweetheart. When Adnan is late to return to his military unit after his leave, army commander Blues launches a kasha: the rounding up and arresting of truant soldiers. Adnan is caught-off guard and makes a run for it with pacifist Absi. The two unlikely friends plot ways to reunite Adnan with his gun – and with Lina – while avoiding their fellow soldiers. Through a series of wry and humorous incidents over 24 hours, we explore life and ideology in rebel-held areas of Sudan.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHf-mOMM3QI&t=5s

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French

FESTIVALS: World Premiere - Venice International Film Festival Critics Week 2018 Director: hajooj kuka Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival 2018

Official Selection - BFI London International Film Festival 2018 Official Selection - Sydney International Film Festival 2019 AWARDS: Best Drama Long International - Austrian Film festival 2019 Jury Award Humour/Satire - Filmfest Bremen A MEMORY IN THREE ACTS

DURATION: 64min | LANGUAGE: Portuguese, Shangaan | YEAR: 2016 I COUNTRIES: Mozambique, Germany | GENRE: Documentary

SYNOPSIS: Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, following a brutal struggle that lasted more than a decade. A Memory In Three Acts explores the dramatic narrative of collective memory and post-colonial trauma, while political prisoners go on a journey in search of therapy to exorcise themselves from their colonial ghosts towards finding possible reconciliation with their past. As an essay on colonialism and silent violence, the film questions the value and duty of memory from the author’s point of view.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW7_aDGJGtA

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French, Portuguese FESTIVALS:FESTIVALS: Director: Wanuri Kahiu World Premiere - IDFA (Competition for First Appearance, Shifting Perspectives) 2016 Director: Inadelso Cossa Official Selection - Göteborg Film Festival 2017 Official Selection - IndieLisboa 2017 Official Selection - Durban International Film Festival 2017 AWARDS: Special Jury Award - Zanzibar International Film Festival 2017 RAFIKI

DURATION: 83min | LANGUAGE: English, Swahili | YEAR: 2018 COUNTRIES: South Africa, Kenya, France, Lebanon, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, USA | GENRE: Drama

SYNOPSIS: Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_-ucSaFpU&t=49s AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French

FESTIVALS: World Premiere - Festival de Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2018 Director: Wanuri Kahiu Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival 2018 Official Selection - Sydney Film Festival, Australia 2018 Official Selection - BFI London FF, United Kingdom 2018 AWARDS: Viewers' Choice Award - Bratislava International Film Festival 2018 Young Programmers Choice Award - Dublin Film Festival 2019

FRONTIÈRES

DURATION: 90min | LANGUAGE: English, French | YEAR: 2017 COUNTRIES: Burkina Faso, France | GENRE: Drama SYNOPSIS: Adjara, Emma and Sali meet on a bus while travelling to Lagos on the Bamako route via Ougadougou. They discover beautiful landscapes of coastal and Sahelian countries, however, they encounter many risks. Their worst nightmare is crossing borders, where they are exposed to great corruption, violence against women and dangerous traffic. To survive, three women are forced to stand together and take care of each other.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5CGDt7cUEk

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French

FESTIVALS: World Premiere - Seattle International Film Festival 2017 Official Selection - Angoulême Film Festival 2017

AWARDS: Director: Appoline Traoré Audience Award - World Cinema Amsterdam 2017

African Integration Prize at FESPACO 2017 Paul Robeson Prize at FESPACO 2017 FESPACO Agreement Council Award 2017 BURKINABE

DURATION: 75min | LANGUAGE: English, French, Diola | YEAR: 2019 COUNTRIES: Burkina Faso, South Africa | GENRE: Drama

SYNOPSIS: A sick young woman, Mariam, comes back to Burkina Faso after having left as a young child who was adopted and sent out of the country to South Africa, where she always felt alien. She returns as an ailing young adult on a journey of self-discovery. She is on a quest to reconnect with her family and her roots. While trying to figure out how to get to her native village, she encounters and befriends a charismatic bike messenger/taxi driver, Moussa, who volunteers to take her South.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TssLWSlbYA&t=3s

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French, Portuguese

FESTIVALS:

World Premiere - FESPACO 2019 Official Selection - Maputo Fast Forward Film Fest 2019 Director: Nthato Mokgata & Carla Official Selection - Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2019 Fonseca Official Selection - Festival de Cinema Brasil 2019 Official Selection - Lake International PanAfrican Film Fest Nairobi 2019 Official Selection - WOW International Film Festival Tunisia 2019 Winnie

DURATION: 98min | LANGUAGE: English | YEAR: 2017 COUNTRY: South Africa, France, The Netherlands | GENRE: Documentary

SYNOPSIS: While her husband was kept, paradoxically, both safe and morally uncontaminated, in jail for 27 long years, Winnie rode the tumultuous violence of a life of struggle far from the safety of exile abroad, eyeball-to-eyeball with a seemingly immutable and vicious apartheid enemy controlling the country.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jwHnyJYUjE

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French

FESTIVALS: Director: Pascale Lamche World Premiere - Sundance Film Festival 2017 Official Selection - Sheffield Docfest 2017 Official Selection - HotDocs 2017 Official Selection - Durban International Film Festival 2017 AWARDS Winner of Best Documentary Director at Sundance Film Festival 2017

The State Against Mandela & The Others

DURATION: 105min | LANGUAGE: English | YEAR: 2018 COUNTRY: France | GENRE: Documentary

SYNOPSIS: 2018 marks the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela.He seized centre stage during a historic trial in 1963 and 1964.But the re were eight others who, like him, faced the death sentence. They too were subjected to pitiless cross-examinations. To a man they stood firm and turned the tables on the state : South Africa’s Apartheid regime was in the dock. Recently recovered sound archives of those hearings transport us back into the thick of the courtroom battles.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Dg3hGyudKtw&t=6s Directors: Gilles Porte, Nicolas Champeaux AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English FESTIVALS: World Premiere - Festival de Cannes 2018 Official Selection - Göteborg Film Festival 2018 AWARDS: Audience Award Best Film - Durban International Film Festival 2018 SUPA MODO

DURATION: 77min | LANGUAGE: Swahili, English, Kikuyu | YEAR: 2018 | COUNTRIES: Kenya, Germany | GENRE: Drama

SYNOPSIS: Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a Superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ToKioHCoU

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, German

FESTIVALS: World Premiere - Berlin International Film Festival 2018 Official Selection - Durban International Film Festival 2018 Director: Likarion Wainaina Official Selection - Seattle International Film Festival 2018 Official Selection - Zanzibar International Film Festival 2018 AWARDS: Generation Kplus Best Feature Film (Crystal Bear) - Berlinale 2018 Best New Director - Cape Town International Film Market and Festival 2018 Best Narrative Feature - Black Film Festival Montreal Silas

DURATION: 80min | LANGUAGE: English, Liberian English | YEAR: 2017 COUNTRIES: Canada, South Africa, Kenya | GENRE: Documentary

SYNOPSIS: Liberian activist, Silas Siakor is a tireless crusader, fighting to crush corruption and environmental destruction in the country he loves. Through the focus on one country, Silas is a global tale that warns of the power of politics and celebrat es the power of individuals to fight back. One man's battle gains momentum and emboldens communities to raise their fists and smartphones, seize control of their lands and protect their environment. It is a new generation of resistance.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pEb_NUZ0t0

AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French Directors: Anjali Nayar, Hawa Essuman FESTIVALS: World Premiere - Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 2017 Official Selection - IDFA 2017 Official Selection - DOC NYC 2017 AWARDS: Best Documentary - Zanzibar International Film Festival 2018 Best Documentary - Durban International Film Festival 2018 I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

DURATION: 95min | LANGUAGE: English | YEAR: 2016 COUNTRY: France, USA, Switzerland, Germany | GENRE: Documentary

SYNOPSIS: Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through both personal appearances and the text of his final unfinished book project, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO touches on the lives and assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers to bring powerful clarity to how the image and reality of Blacks in America today is fabricated and enforced.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM AVAILABLE SUBTITLES: English, French

FESTIVALS: Director: Raoul Peck World Premiere - Berlinale 2017 Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival 2016 AWARDS: Panorama Audience Award (Documentary Film) - Berlinale 2017 Best Documentary - BAFTA 2018