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"Da Yie" is Africa in Motion's 2020 Short Film Competition Jury Award Winner

We are pleased to announce that "Da Yie" (Good Night)  has been chosen as this year’s jury award winner of the Africa in Motion Short Film Competition. From a shortlist of fifteen shorts, all exemplar...

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On restoring Farida Benlyazid's "Door to the Sky"

This year, Africa in Motion is presenting a newly restored version of Farida Benlyazid’s Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (Door to the Sky) (1989). The film explores numerous themes such as grief, religion, and com...

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Staff Pick: Luna Issa, Marketing Intern

Our Lady of the Nile, based on the novel of the same name, tells the story of a group of girls who attend a Belgian-run boarding school in Rwanda. Set in 1973, the story addresses some of the issues w...

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Staff Pick: Carmen Thompson, Festival Co-director

“We’re at Malika’s place… the gatekeeper of the void.”

– Chawki Amari (Algerian journalist, writer and actor)

Algerian filmmaker Hassan Ferhani brings us an understated gem in his second feature-le...

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Staff Pick: Ane Lopez Lopez, Marketing Coordinator

South African filmmaker, visual artist and film theorist Jyoti Mistry leaves us speechless with her film Cause of Death; a poetic yet painful and visceral experimental autopsy report on how women have...

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