/// 2022 Festival Schedule ///

Friday, September 23
5:30 pm Opening Ceremony
7:00 pm Atlantis | Director: Meg Rickards (South Africa) 90 mins | English

5th Annual Symposium: African Films and the City: Space-making, place-making, film-making.
Keynote: Tunde Kelani
Tunde Kelani is the preeminent Nigerian filmmaker, and one of the most distinguished directors on the African continent. His cinematographic endeavors come under the aegis of Mainframe Television and Film Production, which is situated in the heart of Abeokuta, Nigeria. His films are considered to be important works of substance, referenced as having contributed to transforming the culture of the film industry in Nigeria.
Tunde is known for his love of adaptation of literary material into movies. Some of his works include Ko se Gbe, Oleku, Thunder Bolt, The Narrow Path, White Handkerchief, Maami and Dazzling Mirage.
Image Credit:WireImage/John Sciulli

Atlantis
Director: Meg Rickards (South Africa) 90min | English
Showing September 23, 2022 | 7pm

Digging For Life
Director: João Queiroga (Cameroon, US, Qatar, Portugal)
14 mins | English
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 12:15pm

Transactions
Director: Rumbi Katedza (Zimbabwe) 52 mins| English
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 12:15pm

Baby Blues
Director: Mamadou Socrate DIOP |15 mins | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 2:15pm

Memories From Others
Director: Olajide Ajala (Nigeria) 42min | English
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 2:15pm

Regard Noir/Melanin
Director: Aissa Maiga (France) 90 mins | French with English Subtitle
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 4:15pm

Precious Hair and Beauty
Director: John Ogunmuyiwa (Nigeria/UK) 10 min | English
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 6:15pm

Tales of the Accidental City
Director: Maimouna Jallow (Kenya) 55 min | English
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 8:15pm

Virgo: Long Story Short
Director: Makhfou Ndiaye (Senegal) 13 mins | French with English Subtitle
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 8:15pm

Gravedigger's Wife
Director: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (Somali) 83 min | Somali with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 24, 2022 | 8:15pm

I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face
Director: Sameh Alaa (Egypt)
15 min | Arabic with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 1:00 pm

Jegna
Director: Gal Sagy (Israel) 5 min | Amharic/Hebrew with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 1:00 pm

Pushkin's Pants
Director: Lev Brodinsky (Israel)
10 min | Amharic/Russian with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 1:00 pm

Enough
Director: Caleb Slain (USA) 15 mins | English
Showing Sept 25, 2022 |1:00 pm

Al Sit
Directors: Suzannah Mirghani (Sudan/Qatar) 20 min | Arabic with English Subtitle | PG
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 1:00 pm

Downstream to Kinshasa/En Route pour le Milliard
Director: Dieudo Hamadi (DRC) 88 min | English Subtitles
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 3:00pm

L'Accord
Director: Frank Lea Malle (Cameroun) 94 min | French with English Subtitle
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 5:00pm

Marche sur L'eau | Above Water
Director: Aïssa Maïga (France) 90 min | French with English Subtitle
Showing Sept 25, 2022 | 7:00 pm



About the Festival
The African Movie Festival in Manitoba (AM-FM) is an annual fall event held in Winnipeg, Manitoba that showcases the best of African Cinema and that creates a platform for Afro-Canadian dialogue. AM-FM consist of movie screenings, interview sessions with directors/producers/actors, cocktail receptions, and cultural activities including dances, food and entertainment. Full feature movies, shorts and documentaries are screened in French and English from Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and other African countries.
AM-FM is organized by Manitoba African Film Festival Inc., a non-profit organization based in Winnipeg, Canada.
The organization and festival is advised by a committee consisting of Dr. Sheila Petty (University of Regina), Dr. Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba), Dr. Onookome Okome (University of Alberta), and Dr. Mbye Cham (Howard University), Dr. Sarah Buchanan (University of Minnesota, Morris).
Manitoba African Film Festival Inc. was founded in 2017 by Dr. Ben Akoh.


THE TEAM / L'ÉQUIPE :

BEN AKOH
Founder/President
Founder/President/Artistic Director and Advisory Committee Chair, Manitoba African Film Festival Inc.

BRENDA AUSTIN-SMITH
Adviser
Brenda Austin-Smith, Associate professor, Department of English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba.

SHEILA PETTY
Adviser
Sheila Petty, Ph.D., Professor, media studies, University of Regina.

MBYE CHAM
Adviser
Mbye Cham, Ph.D., Professor, Department of African Studies and Director of the Center for African Studies, Howard University in Washington, D. C.

ONOOKOME OKOME
Adviser
Onookome Okome, Ph.D., Professor, Arts, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta.

SARAH B. BUCHANAN
Adviser
Sarah B. Buchanan, Ph.D., Associate professor, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA.

CHIGBO ARTHUR ANYADUBA
Adviser
Dr. Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, The University of Winnipeg.

ÉTIENNE-MARIE LASSI
Adviser
Étienne-Marie Lassi is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Literature at the University of Manitoba.

NANDOZIE EKEOCHA
Volunteer
Nandozie Ekeocha, M.Sc., Avid film enthusiast and movie critique, writer and director of various screenplays and short films. Volunteer on Social media, marketing and promotion.

BABATUNDE O. ONIKOYI
Volunteer
Babatunde O. Onikoyi is coeditor of The Cinema of Tunde Kelan: Aesthetics, Theatricalities and Visual Performance (Cambridge Scholars, 2021). He currently teaches African Screen Media and Postcolonial Studies in Adeleke University, Nigeria.

ANA CAMILA ESTEVES
Colaborator
Co-founder and curator of Mostra de Cinemas Africanos (Brazil). Specialized in African cinemas, she holds a PhD in the field, and her research interests include curatorship, festivals and streaming platforms.

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updated by Thierno DIA, 14 Feb 2023