Signals: Raiding Africa
Overview of films
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Les Boulistes 6
A good sense of humour is all you need for a nice short film. Episode from a series of twelve short African comedies. Screens before Imani.
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Fire Fly
An improvised mini-feature in which both everyday and mythical aspects of China are investigated. With a nice kid playing the lead.
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O emigrante
This Angolan filmmaker regularly went awol at the previous IFFR. It turned out he was spontaneously shooting a new film in Rotterdam, about the lar
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Les Boulistes 4
You can turn anything in to a joke, as long as you see it. Episode from a series of twelve short African comedies.
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Lobi (hier/demain)
Humorous result of cooperation between young Congolese and Belgian artists/filmmakers. About the present and the past. Shot on 8mm film and digital
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Moamba Chinesa
He missed his flight twice, but still made it to the port of Guangzhou (Canton). Or chocolate city as the Chinese call it, because of all the Afric
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Elmina
One man’s struggle to retain his lands and his pride against overwhelming odds, Elmina is a story of love, betrayal and Oil that showcases Ghana’s
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Chips and Liver Girls
If you’re a girl in a city like Kampala, and you want everything, you have to give everything. She wants to survive, or to study. He wants value fo
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When China Met Africa
As a festival, you have to have a good reason to screen a film that is not a premiere – and has even been shown on national TV. The reason is
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My Father’s House
In China, they call the port of Guangzhou ‘Chocolate City’, because so many Africans come here to trade, live and even set up churches.
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Les Boulistes 3
Humour is an effective weapon against despair and disorder. Episode from a series of twelve short African comedies.
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Memory (work in progress)
Is the concept of a country conceivable after genocide? Together, a filmmaker from Rwanda and a filmmaker from Finland ask a question it is impossi