Gender : Feature fiction
Country of production: South Africa
Language: English
Estimated duration of the film :90min
Email: imranhamdulay@gmail.com / khosie1@gmail.com / david@properfilm.com
Synopsis
It is ten years since our democracy was born and ten years since her husband’s death. Salma, a teacher and former PAC (Pan Africanist Congress of Azania) activist, has been struggling as the sole breadwinner of her family. After receiving notice from the bank, she has two weeks to save her home from being repossessed and auctioned. She approaches her former party, activist friends and family but is rebuffed at every turn. Only a old comrade is willing to help but even his generosity comes at a price.
Imran Hamdulay (Director )
Writer & director. His short films have played at numerous festivals around the world where they have won multiple awards. His most recent film in development, Pieces of Salma, is scheduled to shoot end 2020.
Khosie Dali
(Producer )
Producer, based in Cape Town. In 2012 she founded Miss K Productions to produce and develop films with special focus on unearthing female writers and directors. She is currently in post production on John Gutierrez’s heist drama The Gift.
Gender : Feature Documentary
Country of production: Burkina Faso
Language: French
Estimated duration of the film :70-90min
Film budget:119 210 €
Email:Ffaidabaline@gmail.com / brandimage.burkina@gmail.com
Synopsis
It is a story of transformations! « Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed. » Lysa, my mother and her friends live each day with this moto while transforming scraps of left over cloth into extraordinary objects. Through this transformation, they transform themselves; transform the world around them, and even the wider world. «It is from the caterpillar that butterfly is born. »
Parfait K. KABORE (Director )
Born in Ouaga in 1984, he has a degree in documentary filmmaking. After a few short films, he made his first feature length film Place à la revolution (2017): Grand-Prix of the Jury –International Documentary Film Festival in Sang Louis/Senegal; League of Human Rights Hope Prize-FIFDH. Guadeloupe in Pointe-à-Pitre. In 2019 he finalized his second film After your revolt, your vote.
Serge Désiré OUEDRAOGO
(Producer )
Established in Ouaga since 2012, we aim to play a role in the renewal of cinematography on the continent. Our ambition is to offer to the public, here and else where, a unique content that is demanding and profoundly artistic. A determination can be found in the heart of the films we have already produced : Showing a modern, creative and resilient image of Africa.
Gender : Feature Narrative
Country of production: Ethiopia
Language: English
Estimated duration of the film :90min
Film budget:720 000 $
Email:cherryhiw@gmail.com / dr.mehret@gmail.com
Synopsis
Sara and her city Addis Ababa have a relationship-a love affair. Perched above from her apartment she descends to partake in the city’s pleasures at night. Floating from one bar to another, One evening, a chance encounter with Sara’s ideal man upends her world and throws her off her game. As she attempts to gain her footing back, the genius within her struggles to make sense of what it means to meet your match.
Getaneh Hiwot Admasu (Director )
Born in Addis Ababa, she studied electrical and computer engineering before joining the Blue Nile Film Academy. Her first short film, New Eyes (2015) was selected in Venice Orizzonti and Toronto IFF. She then directed a short documentary, Lettres de L'Éthiopie (2016) and A Fool God (2019). An alumnus of TIFF Talent Lab, Addis to Cannes, Locarno Summer Academy, Berlinale Talents, Durban Talents and Realness Residency, Hiwot is currently developing her debut feature, Sweet Annoyance.
Mandefro Mehret Ayalew
(Producer )
Award-winning producer, writer and founder of A51 Films based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her feature film Difret was the first film to win Audience Awards at both Sundance and Berlin. She recently executive produced the feature Sweetness in the Belly which had a World Premiere at 2019 Toronto IFF.
Gender : FeatureHybrid
Country of production: Lebanon
Language: Arabic, Syriac, English
Estimated duration of the film :80min
Film budget:238 000 $
Email:rubescabernet@gmail.com / muhaned.heayl@gmail.com
Synopsis
A voyeur approaches foggy deserted geography, as the film follows 4 Syriac characters in diaspora. The camera approaches melancholy houses in the winter. We see silent characters trapped inside. A woman in her forties lost the love she reverted to after her escape from Iraq. A man in his thirties is obsessed with making replicas of Assyrian buildings. An elderly man is angry with his dead wife. A young designer is angry with her father. The strands culminate till the characters are brought to a confrontation. We realize that they are closely related.
Ruba Atiyeh (Director )
Coming from theatre Ruba worked on themes of displacement and estrangement for which shewas awarded. Ruba has a Documentary MA from Goldsmiths College London. She made many docs for Aljazeera Documentary and two shorts. A Home of One’s Own is her first documentary feature.
Mohanad Hayal
(Producer )
A graduate of Cinema from Baghdad University, he made several short and documentary films. His company, Sumerian Dream,co-founded with two filmmakers, produced several Iraqi and European films with Belgium and Sweden.His first feature, Haifa Street, 2019, was supported by Venice IFF, Tribeca and DFI and Takmil CFF.
Gender : Feature Documentary
Country of production: Morocco
Language: Arabic
Estimated duration of the film :90min
Film budget:260 000 €
Email:asmae.elmoudir@gmail.com / Lucie.rego@hutongproductions.com
Synopsis
On the only one photograph of the child that I was, there is a little girl sitting on a bench, smiling shyly at the camera, but I am convinced that it is not really me. I must go back to discover the truth, and from this strange and lonely photograph proliferate a multitude of images and words that intertwine familial and political stories to reveal the reality behind the walls of Sebata-Casablanca, and tell the untold story of The 1981 Bread Riots.
Asmae El Moudir (Director )
Director, editor and producer born in Casablanca, Morocco. She has directed documentaries for SNRT, AlJazeera Documentary, BBC and Al Araby TV. She has also directed four fiction short films, such as Thank God It’s Friday, her most awarded film in festivals.
Hutong Productions - Lucie Rego et Pauline Tran Van Lieu
(Producer )
They founded Hutong Productions to launch emerging authors. Since its founding in 2017, the company has received support from French Regional funds, CNC, Fresnoy, SCAM, Doha Film Institute, IDFA Bertha Fund or Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. Their films have been screened to French Cinematheque, DOKLeipzig, FEST, Short Film Festival Leuven…
Gender : Feature Documentary
Country of production: Uganda
Language: English
Estimated duration of the film :90min
Film budget:997 156 $
Email:aworkingangie@gmail.com/polwoch@gmail.com
Synopsis
The General’s Amnesty is a drama set in dictator Idi Amin Dada 1970s Uganda, that follows ORACH (27), a business man, imprisoned (in a repurposed old fort now turned into a state research bureau) in Northern Uganda, for dealing in smuggled goods during the ‘economic war’, to finance his desire to belong to the glamour lifestyle in heady Kampala.
Angella J. Emurwon (Director )
Ugandan Filmmaker, award winning Playwright, and writing Mentor. She has a passion for writing and telling stories. Her two recent short films were both screened as an official selection at the Durban International Film Festival, 2019.
Achiro P. Olwoch
(Producer )
Award winning Ugandan writer and film maker. She hails from Gulu in Northern Uganda and she lives to tell stories and make films that she can share with the rest of the world. She presently lives and works in Kampala, Uganda.
Gender : Feature Dramedy
Country of production: Palestine
Language: Arabic
Estimated duration of the film :90min
Film budget:260 000 €
Email:zaghasaid@hotmail.com / maissalman@gmail.com
Synopsis
In Area C in the West Bank, a completely lawless area due to the lack of any proper policing, Abbas, a retired Palestinian professor turned farmer in severe debt, turns to cannabis cultivation after flooding ruins his strawberry crops. But as the plan proves lucrative, several others, including Israeli settlers and a Palestinian security officer, try to get a piece of the pie. Pushed into a corner, Abbas comes up with a twisted plan to contain his losses.
Said Zagha (Director )
Palestinian screenwriter and director. His short film, Five Boys and a Wheel premiered at the Dubai IFF, screened at over 35 festivals worldwide. It is distributed by MAD Solutions and has won several awards in Mexico, Algeria, and Oman. Said is in post-production on his upcoming short film, A House for Rent.
Mais Salman
(Producer )
Jordanian producer who earned her MFA in film from the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts and has produced several short films and documentaries, the latest being thePalestinian film A House for Rent, which is in post-production. Mais is also producing Weedestine, a feature film currently in development at the MFI Script Workshop.
Gender : Feature Narrative
Country of production: Rwanda
Language: KINYARWANDA
Estimated duration of the film :120min
Film budget:313 087 €
Email:nkunda250@gmail.com/izacu250@gmail.com
Synopsis
Sacha, a 20-year-old prostitute and single mother, juggles between prostitution and the good education of her 5-year-old son and adopted daughter. She keeps her son in the dark at work by lying to him that she works at night in a supermarket. When the truth behind what she really does to bring bread to the table is revealed in an unexpectedly brutal way, their family is detroyed and it will change their lives forever.
wa Nkunda Mutiganda (Director )
Rwandan self-taught filmmaker. In 2014, as a one-man crew, he wrote, produced, directed his first short film Rayila screened and won awards in various film festivals around the world. His second short film The Secret of Happiness (2017) was screened at various festivals and distributed on Streampix and other various VOD platforms. In television, he has written the local hit TV series such as Seburikoko and City Maid. In 2018 he stopped his work on TV Series to put his full focus in film. In 2018, his debut feature film project Nameless participated in Takmil Workshop at Carthage FF as a Work in Progress, and was picked up by French distribution company, Orange Studio for distribution.
Amuli Yuhi
(Producer )
African film director, Producer and Screenwriter born in Rwanda. His two first short films Ishaba and Akarwa has been screened and won awards at various film festivals across the globe; in France, Egypt, South Africa and Canada. In 2017, through IZACU AM, his production company he co-founded with Mutiganda Wa Nkunda he produced Nameless, a debut feature film by Mutiganda Wa Nkunda which was coproduced and distributed by Orange Studio. He is currently based in Kampala, where he’s working on his debut feature film Yohani.
Gender : Feature Documentary
Country of production: Tunisia
Language: Arabic - French
Estimated duration of the film :80min
Film budget:460 552 €
Email:jerbi.film@gmail.com / heniaproduction@gmail.com
Synopsis
Scared of transmitting his stuttering to his one-year-old son, Dhia, a Tunisian filmmaker exiled in France, starts speech therapy. Encouraged by the specialist to identify the origins of his disorder, he returns to his homeland, which he left upon the Revolution. Soon, the question isn't much his speech disorder as much as knowing what to tell his son about Tunisia.
DhiaJerbi (Director )
Tunisian filmmaker, born in 1991 in the United Arab Emirates, where he grew up. He returned to Tunisia in 2003. After obtaining his bachelor's degree and a year in an engineering school, he changed his orientation and got enrolled in the Higher Institute of Multimedia Art of Mannouba (ISAMM Tunis) where he obtained a degree in film directing and script-writing. In ISAMM he has directed several school films, including Marhouja. He then went to France to join the documentary school of Lussas where he directed three films including Au pays des oranges tristes. Documentary and fiction often interweave in his films.
Erige Sehiri
(Producer )
French-Tunisian director and producer, who first directed several films, including Le Facebook de mon père in 2012, produced by Palmyre Badinier and Raed Andoni. Her first feature-length documentary Railway Men (world premiere at Visions du Réel 2018, international premiere at IDFA 2018), of which she is also the associate producer, has won several awards (Jury distinctions at CinéMed, audience prize at the Filmer le Travail FF of Poitiers) and was released in Tunisian cinemas in 2019.
ErigeSehiri is an independent filmmaker and producer. She produces creative documentaries. In parallel and since 2011, she has also committed herself to the creation of new medias and co-founded the Tunisian webzine INKYFADA where she produced web series and documentaries. She is the associate producer of her first feature, “LA VOIE NORMALE” aka “RAILWAY MEN” (premiered at IDFA and Visions du réel). Recently, ErigeSehiri became the manager of the production company HENIA where she develops author-driven films such as Hamza Ouni second feature “El Medestansi”, Youssef Asswad “Municipales” and DhiaJerbi “Des espoirs”.
Gender : Feature Documentary
Country of production: Tunisia
Language: Tunisiandialect
Estimated duration of the film :90min
Film budget:377 000 €
Email:artyounes@hotmail.fr / benouanes.kamel@gmail.com
Synopsis
In the mid-1930s, Ahmed, the young Imam of the village mosque, has just married the beautiful potter's daughter. But his happiness did not last long. By surprising the bride putting on makeup and getting herself beautiful, the father suspected her of having a lover.No need to wear makeup, he thinks, since her husband is blind. So, he forces his son to divorce. The young Imam then sinks into a painful sorrow, especially since he ignores the reason for the paternal decision. This sorrow is still transformed into revolt, rebellion, the day he learns that his wife has remarried with his cousin. So, he breaks with religion, stands out from the authority of the father and becomes an alcoholic . And here among the companions of tavern his sighs feed his muse and lead him to declaim tender and plaintive elegies including the famous song Freg Ghzali (separated from my gazelle) which will be performed by the Tunisian singer Saliha.
YOUNES BEN HAJRIA (Director )
Tunisian director and visual artist. He directed several short films, including: Soufisme (2018), Kiarostami (2016) et Le Horla (20017). Doctor of Science and Technology Arts at the University of Carthage. He is the author of several critical writings including his book L'odeur au temps du cinéma.
Kamel Ben Ouanès
(Producer )
Producer, scriptwriter, critic and academic. He teaches film analysis and French literature at the University of Carthage. He co-founded the production company Kantaoui Films. He is also a writer, author of Figures, Tunisia, 30 years of cinema, Georges Perec and others.
