Africa in Motion Film Festival

25 October - 02 November 2012

This is a past event

AiM Sets Sights on Modern Africa

Scotland’s biggest celebration of African cinema launches its ambitious 2012 programme. Featuring the best in contemporary African film, Africa in Motion (AiM) returns for its 7^th consecutive year to Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh, and launches this year for the first time at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). Taking the very timely theme of ‘Modern Africa’, and arriving hot on the heels of Damon Albarn’s Africa Express UK music tour, the festival’s diverse, continent-spanning programme of documentary and fictional films (totalling 20 UK premieres, 23 features and 32 shorts) will explore African urban and rural experiences, identity and popular culture, contemporary politics and social issues, Africa’s rich heritage and its exciting future.

The festival programme opens on Wednesday 25 October (in Glasgow, Sunday 28 October) with the UK premiere of Uhlanga (The Mark), the story of three teenagers struggling against poverty and prejudice written and directed by celebrated South African author and playwright Ndaba ka Ngwane, who will be in attendance. The programme closes on Friday 2 November (Glasgow, Wednesday 31 October) with Nigerian-born director Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City, the story of a young African immigrant living and falling in love on the fringes of New York City. The programme takes in five strands: African Science Fiction, Arab Spring Documentaries, Nollywood (Nigeria’s film industry, the second largest in the world), Modern African Identities and African Popular Arts. AiM 2012 also incorporates the annual Short Film Competition, African Films for Children, a Secondary Schools Screening and an academic Symposium.

The full programme is available here.

Hosted by: Africa in Motion
Venue: Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
Contact: Miles Fielder, Press Officer. Email: press@africa-in-motion.org.uk