Africa! Africa!

From the verdent hills of Mozambique to the minarets  of Morocco, Africa! Africa! returns to bring a taste of the dark continent to your festival experience.

Feature Films

ADHEN

(France, Algeria, 93 min)
A gentle comedy at the crossroads of manual labour and religious belief.… On the outskirts of Paris, Algerian and French cultures clash in a bleak industrial zone, where stacks of pallets are p… More >

BURNED HEARTS

(Morocco, 84 min)
"Further proof of the richness and diversity of recent Moroccan cinema." - Variety… Marking filmmaker Ahmed El Maanouni's return to fictional drama - his music doco Trances (1982) was restored … More >

END OF THE RAINBOW

(Australia, France, 83 min)
Where there is gold, there will be gold- diggers… … The transportation of an entire industrial gold mine from one side of the world to a remote area of Guinea, West Africa, is an epic lo… More >

JOHNNY MAD DOG

(France, 95 min)
Awarded the Prize of Hope at this year's Cannes Film Festival“It was primordial for me to work with ex-children soldiers, who seemed to be the only ones capable of giving a sincere testimony of… More >

RETURN

(South Korea, 89 min)
The 2008 Jeonju Digital Project continues to showcase innovative work of established filmmakers working in the digital format. This year the project brings us three shorts from the dark continent.Exp… More >

SLEEPWALKING LAND

(Portugal, Mozambique, 103 min)
“I was embarking on a journey that would kill the certainties of my childhood.”… Adapted from Mia Couto’s novel of the same name, Sleepwalking Land is ultimately a magical fan… More >

YELLOW HOUSE, THE

(Algeria, France, 86 min)
One man’s efforts to repair his broken family with yellow paint and electricity.… In the harsh landscape of Algeria, a poor Berber farming family is stunned by news of their son’s d… More >