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27th
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Festival 2017
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By Venue
Brass Monkey
Dance Base
Dominion Cinema
Edinburgh College of Art, Film and TV Screening Room
Edinburgh College of Art, Hunter Lecture Theatre
Filmhouse
Glasgow University - Andrew Stewart Cinema
Institut Français d’Écosse
Kelvin Hall
North Edinburgh Arts Centre
Scottish Poetry Library
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square
Serenity Cafe
SOAS
South London Gallery
St John’s Church
St Ninians Church
Stereo
Talbot Rice Gallery
The Castle Cinema
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By Country
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South Africa
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USA
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By Genre
Animation
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By Strand
Africa’s Lost Classics
Afro-Latin Visibility in Focus
F-Rated
Reviving Scotland’s Black History
Films & Events
Films only
Events only
Reset
1745
Gordon Napier | Scotland 2017 | 18m | 15
Accra Power - UK Premiere
Sandra Krampelhuber | Ghana/Austria 2016 | 49m | 15
Event
Africa Animated
Event
Africa in Motion Opening Reception
Event
African Film: Looking Back Through the Lens
Akher ayam el madina (In the Last Days of the City)
Tamer El Said | Egypt/Germany/UK/UAE | 2016 | 1h58m | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Akili and Me
Tanzania 2017 | 24m
Al-mumia: The Night Of Counting The Years
Chadi Abdel Salam | Egypt 1969 | 1h43m | Classical Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Because I Am
Lawrie Zidyana | Zimbabwe/UK 2017 | 6m | 15
Black Barbie
Comfort Arthur | Ghana 2016 | 4m | 15
Black Head Cow
Elizabeth Nichols | Tanzania 2016 | 12m | Maasai Swahili with English subtitles | 15
Black Rose
Pascal Aka | Ghana 2016 | 11m | 15
Event
Call-and-response: A Workshop On Moroccan Music Documentary
Chebet
Tony Koros | Kenya 2017 | 12m | Swahili with English subtitles | 15
Cuba Libre
Jorge Luis Sánchez | Cuba 2015 | 2h | 15
De Voortrekkers
Harold Shaw | South Africa 1916 | 54m | Silent with intertitles and live soundtrack | 15
Dem Dem!
Pape Bouname Lopy, Marc Recchia and Christophe Rolin | Senegal 2017 | 25m | Wolof and French with English subtitles | 15
Event
Exhibition Opening
Fatma 75
Selma Baccar | Tunisia 1976 | 1h | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Félicité
Alain Gomis | France/Senegal/Belgium/Germany/Lebanon 2017 | Lingala with English subtitles | 2h3m | 15
Fonko
Göran Olsson, Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén | Sweden and Germany 2016 | 1h29m | English, French, Portuguese and Wollof with English subtitles | 15
Frontières (Borders)
Apolline Traoré | Burkina Faso 2017 | 1h30m | French with English subtitles | 15
Got Flowers Today
Jibril Mailafia | Nigeria 2016 | 4m | 15
Happy Travels, Sim! (Bon Voyage, Sim!)
Moustapha Alassane | Niger 1966 | 5m
Homage To Tahar Cheriaa
Mohamed Challouf | Tunisia 2015 | 1h10m | Arabic, French and English with English subtitles | 15
Husse Met Lang Ore
Alme Swart | South Africa 2016 | 10m | Afrikaans with English subtitles | 15
I Promise You
Mohamed Yargui | Algeria 2016 | 17m | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Joe Bullet
Louis De Witt | South Africa 1973 | 1h19m
Keyla - UK Premiere
Viviana Gómez Echeverry | Colombia 2017 | 1h27m | Spanish and Providencia Creole with English subtitles | 15
La Femme Mariée À Trois Hommes (The Woman Married To Three Men)
Danièle Roy, Cilia Sawadogo | Burkina Faso 1993 | 6m | French with English subtitles | 15
La Princesse Yennega (Princess Yennega)
Claude Le Gallou and Blaise Patrix | Burkina Faso 1986 | 12m | French with English subtitles | 15
Liyana
Aaron Kopp and Amanda Kopp | Swaziland 2017 | 1h17m | 12
Mama Colonel
Dieudo Hamadi | Democratic Republic of the Congo/France 2017 | Lingala, Swahili, French with English subtitles | 15
Mosquito: The Bite of Passage
Brian Vincent Rhodes | US 2017 | 7m
Mossane
Safi Faye | Senegal 1996 | 1h45m | Wolof with English subtitles
Mueda, Memória E Massacre (Mueda, Memory And Massacre)
Ruy Guerra | Mozambique 1979 | 1h20m | Portuguese with English subtitles | 15
National Defence
Frenkel Brothers | Egypt 1940 | 10m | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Nawara
Hala Khalil | Egypt 2015 | 2h2m | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka And Senghor
Manthia Diawara | USA/France/Germany/Portugal 2015 | 59m | English and French with English subtitles | 15
Noma
Pablo Pinedo Boveda | South Africa 2017 | 1h21m | isiXhosa with English subtitles | 15
Occupation: Killer
Walid Ayoub | Morocco 2017 | 23m | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Orisha's Journey
Abdul Ndadi | Ghana 2014 | 6m
Event
Power To The People!
Shashamane + Brina
Giulia Amati | Ethiopia/Italy 2016 | 1h20m | 15
Short Film Competition - UK Premieres
T-Junction - UK Premiere
Amil Shivji | Tanzania 2017 | 1h45m | Swahili with English Subtitles | 15
Tess
Meg Rickards | South Africa 2016 | 1h27m | Afrikaans with English subtitles | 15
The Ant Queen
Leila Artese | Algeria 2016 | 15m | Arabic with English subtitles | 15
The Black Creoles: Memories And Identities
Martha Clarisa Hernández and María José Álvarez | Nicaragua/Costa Rica 2015 | 1h24m | 15
The Crying Conch
Vincent Toi | Canada 2017 | 20m | Haitian Creole with English subtitles | 15
The Dark Box
Yemi Jolaoso | Nigeria 2016 | 8m | 15
The Shoemaker’s Pages
Girum Ermyas Gebereselassie | Ethiopia 2016 | 9m | Amharic with English subtitles | 15
Event
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Acknowledged
Toad Visits His In-laws (Le Crapaud Chez Ses Beaux-Parents)
Jean-Michel Kibushi | DRC 1991 | 10m
Trances
Ahmed El Maanouni | Morocco 1981 | 1h30m | Moroccan Arabic with English subtitles | 15
Event
Tule Chakula
Event
Ubongo Kids
Uilhuisie (Owl House)
Jennifer Backeberg | South Africa 2016 | 7m | Afrikaans with English subtitles | 15
UPRIZE!
Sifiso Khanyile | South Africa 2017 | 58m | 15
Vanishing Sail FILM + DJ Yemster after party
Alexis Andrews | Antigua/Grenada 2015 | 1h28m | 15
Event
Vertigo Sea
Wallay
Berni Goldblat | France/Burkina Faso/Qatar 2017 | 1h24m | French, Dioula with English subtitles | 15
Winnie
Pascale Lamche | South Africa 2017 | 1h38m | 15
Wùlu
Daouda Coulibaly | France/Senegal | 2016 | 1h35m | 15