A 100% African-produced film has won the Best Fiction Feature Film Award at the 20th edition of the Tarifa-Tangier African Film Festival (FCAT). Father’s Day, by Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahoz, breaks with the tradition of African cinema co-produced by European countries, as his film is produced exclusively in Rwanda. For…
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the kickoff of the 30th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) at FLC from May 10 to 16. Launched in 1993 and one of the first of its kind in the United States, the festival reflects on the myriad ways African and diaspora storytellers have used the moving image as a mold to tell stories with their own nuances and idiosyncrasies. Under the banner, Freeforms, the festival presents over 30 films from more than.
The Kenyan filmmaker chose to explore the heavy subject of sexual abuse for her first feature but that hasn’t stopped audiences from engaging with the film’s pressing themes.