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BB Sasore’s Breath of Life is AFRIFF 2023 closing film The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) has announced Breath of Life, an inspirational story about life and destiny as its closing night movie. The selection made known by AFRIFF’s Founder & Festival Director, Chioma Ude, aligns with the organiser’s bid to promote more indigenous movies to a global audience that will grace the festival’s closing night hosted in partnership with Prime Video in Lagos, Nigeria.The 2023 Kano Indigenous Languages of Africa Film Market & Festival (KILAF) will hold in the city of Kano as from November 21 to 26. The festival, which is in its fifth edition, is an initiative of Abdulkareem Mohammed-led Moving Image Limited. The festival, which will feature film screening, panel discussion, workshops and networking sessions, aims to promote films produced in indigenous languages of Africa while encouraging their cross-border sales. According to the festival founder and President Abdulkareem Mohammed, the festival is for every voice, content or shade of opinion. “The KILAF spirit will hopefully ignite African spirit and enterprise to melt into the brewing pot of globalisation as a strong and formidable player. The wisdom therein is to inspire and nurture African video movie practitioners to live up to the challenges of representing the continent in their respective endeavours,” Mohammed said.FOR the fifth time since 2018, the Berlinale initiative World Cinema Fund (WCF) will be one of the guests, with a Berlinale Spotlight, at the international film festival “Around the World in 14 Films”. At its 18th edition (December 1 to 9, 2023), “Around the World in 14 Films” will present an all-day Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund on December 3 with four of the WCF entries in the ‘14 Films’ competition. The fifth WCF-film is being presented as part of homage. The selection made by the festival together with the WCF will focus on works by filmmakers from Argentina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malaysia, Mongolia and Tunisia. The film debut of Augure by Belgian-Congolese star rapper, Baloji, is about belief in witches and wizards in Africa; it won the New Voices Award at Cannes Film Festival 2023.  Amanda Nell Eu from Malaysia was awarded the Grand Prix of the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes for her debut Tiger Stripes, a fascinating mix of coming-of-age film and fantasy. A further highlight is Four Daughters by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania. The extraordinary documentary Four Daughters, as well as Augure, City of Wind and Tiger Stripes have been nominated by their respective countries for ‘Best Foreign Film’ at the Oscars 2024. The festival is screening the 5th WCF film in its “Homage Lisandro Alonso”: Eureka, a new work by the renowned Argentine director. Comprising four chapters, Eureka interweaves various ethnic groups in the USA, Mexico and the Amazon region between the years 1870 and 2019. Vincenzo Bugno, head of the WCF, will introduce the Berlinale Spotlight at “Around the World in 14 Films” on December 3: “Thanks to this excellent, productive cooperation, Berlin audiences will be granted another opportunity to see some exceptional films from this season, realized with the support of the WCF, and representing the WCF’s outstanding versatility. “Around the World in 14 Films” will take place from December 1 to 9, 2023. More information and the programme are available at: 14films.de/en/

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