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African Shorts
Sat 25 Oct at 5.45pm
1h49m | Various formats | 15
AiM 2008 is hosting a short film competition for emerging African
filmmakers. In this programme, we are proud to present the eight films
which were shortlisted for the final stage of the competition. The
films span fiction and documentary genres: a magic realist tale from
Tunisia; a Moroccan story of childhood nostalgia; a dramatic short
from Egypt; an edgy tale about two gangsters set in the high-octane
Nigerian metropolis Lagos; a heart-warming love story from Mozambique; and three films from South Africa:
a stylistically experimental documentary on anti-apartheid activist
Steve Biko; an innovative stop motion animation short; and a
fascinating documentary on two lovers and community activists in the
Cape.
The winner of the short film competition will be announced directly after the screenings
by jury member and acclaimed filmmaker Gaston Kaboré.
The winning filmmaker will receive £1,000 prize money
to assist them in their filmmaking career and there
will also be an Audience Choice Award, to be announced at
the end of the festival.
The AiM short film competition
is kindly sponsored by the African Movie Academy Awards
(AMAA); Southern Africa Direct;
and Total Black TV.
The eight films are:
Agenda
Diek Grobler | South Africa 2007 | 7m | Afrikaans | Stop-motion animation
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Area Boys |
Area Boys
Omelihu Nwanguma | Nigeria/UK 2007 | 25m | English | Fiction
Biko's Children
Vuyisa Breeze Yoko | South Africa 2007 | 14m | English | Experimental documentary
I Love You
Rogério Manjate | Mozambique 2007 | 3m | No dialogue | Fiction
Magic Crop
Anis Lassoued | Tunisia 2006 | 18m | Arabic with English subtitles
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Red & Blue |
Pam & Ashraf
Robyn Rorke | South Africa 2007 | 15m | English and Afrikaans with
English subtitles | Documentary
Red & Blue
Mahmood Soliman | Egypt 2007 | 12m | Arabic with English subtitles | Fiction
Sellam and Demetan
Mohamed Amin | Morocco 2008 | 15m | Berber with English subtitles | Fiction