2020 official project selection
fiction
A Can of Condensed Milk (Working Title)
Producer: Julie Laurenz
Director: Sara Blecher
Country: South Africa
Al Bahs An Manfaz L Khoroug Al Sayed Rambo (Seeking Haven For Mr Rambo)
Producer: Rasha Hosny
Director: Khaled Mansour
Country: South Africa
Al Mostamara (The Settlement)
Producers: Hala Lotfy, Etienne de Ricaud
Director: Mohamed Ibrahim
Country: Egypt
ApeTown
Producers: Bridget Pickering
Director: Kurt Orderson
Screenwriter: Rae Human
Country: South Africa
Goodbye Julia
Producers: Amjad Abu Alala
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Country: Sudan
Mehal Sefari (Median)
Producer: Tamara Dawit
Director: Abraham Gezahagne
Country: Ethiopia
Over The Republic
Exec Producer: Ramadan Suleman
Director: Lamar Bonhomme
Country: South Africa
Searching For Lebo
Producer: Matrid Nyagah
Director: Simon Mukali
Country: Kenya
Sola
Producers: Wilf Varvill, Arnaud Dommerc, Michael Henrichs
Director: Issa Serge Coelo
Country: Chad
Stellar Collision
Producer: Layla Swart
Director: Thishiwe Ziqubu
Country: South Africa
The Accident
Producer: Khosi Dali
Director: Imran Hamdulay
Country: South Africa
The Weekend
Producer: Akona Matyila
Director: Kenneth Gwele
Country: South Africa
Vlees Van My Vlees (Flesh from My Flesh)
Producer: Lucia Meyer-Marais, Jozua Malherbe
Director: Matthys Boshoff
Country: South Africa
Vrees (Fear)
Producer: Corne Van Rooyen
Director: Rene Van Rooyen
Country: South Africa
We All Fall Down
Producer: Tapiwa Chipfupa
Director: Tapiwa Chipfupa
Country: Zimbabwe
documentary
12 Pangas
Producer: James Tayler
Director: Xola Meto
Country: South Africa
Abo Zabaal 1989
Producer: Kesmat El Sayed
Director: Bassam Mortada
Country: Egypt
Beyond the Light Barrier
Producer: Uga L Carlini
Ass. Producers: Jacqui Teasdale-Pearson, Dumi Gumbi, Toni Caradonna
Director: Uga L Carlini
Country South Africa
Big Boys Don't Cry
Producer: Hala Lofty
Co-producer: Philipp Mairice Raube
Director: Muhammad Mustapha
Country: Egypt
Des Espoirs (Hope)
Producer: Erige Sehri
Director: Dhia Jerbi
Country: Tunisia
E Quem Cozinha? (And Who Will Cook?)
Producer: Samira Vera-Cruz
Director: Samira Vera-Cruz
Country: Cape Verde
How to Build a Library
Producers: Maia Lekow & Christopher King
Directors: Maia Lekow & Christopher King
Country: Kenya
Les Oublies (The Forgotten Ones)
Producers: Abdoulsalam Hama, Julien Fiorentino
Directors: Ousmane Samassekou
Country: Mali
Man of God
Producer: Jack Chiang
Director: Poppy Madela
Country: South Africa
O Navio e o Mar (The Ship and the Sea)
Producer: Lara Sousa
Co-producer: Matheus Mello
Directors: Lara Sousa and Everlane Moraes
Country: Mozambique
Pan Africa & The Ticking Time Bomb
Producer: Eva Njoki Munyiri
Co-producer: Jean Meeran
Director: Eva Njoki Munyiri
Country: Kenya and South Africa
Rising up at Night
Producers: Dada Kahindo, Rosa Spaliviero
Director: Nelson Makengo
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
The House is Burning
Producers: Natalie Geyser, Sara Gouveia
Director: Sara Gouveia
Country: South Africa
The Men Who Speak Gayle
Producers: Georgie Paget, Thembisa Cochrane
Director: Andrew Brukman
Country: South Africa
The Wall of Death
Producers: Merieme Addou, Alexis Taillant, Nadege Labe
Director: Amine Sabir
Country: Morocco
What's Eating My Mind
Producer: Sam Soko
Director: Noella Luka
Country: Kenya
2020 talents durban selection
FEATURE FICTION SELECTION
10.628
PRODUCER: RAMSES MAHFOUDH
DIRECTOR: ISSAM BOUGUERRA
COUNTRY: TUNISIA
BEHIND HIGH WALLS
PRODUCER: JONATHAN KYRIAKOU
DIRECTOR: PHEELLO MOFOKENG
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
BETWEEN WORLDS
PRODUCER: LYDIA SUE-ELLEN CHITUNYA
SCREENWRITER: ADONG JUDITH
COUNTRY: UGANDA
EXTRAVAGANT WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE
PRODUCER: NO PRODUCER
DIRECTOR: LIESE KUHN
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
NDI & FRIENDS
PRODUCER: PAUL SAMBA AND IFAANA QUALAR
DIRECTOR: PAUL SAMBA
COUNTRY: CAMEROON
OBJECTIVE FESPACO
PRODUCER: YOAN SEA DOUIN GUELATÉ CASIMIR
DIRECTOR: YOAN SEA DOUIN GUELATÉ CASIMIR
COUNTRY: IVORY COAST
SHORT FICTION SELECTION
HAPPINESS
PRODUCER: REDA ZEROUALI
DIRECTOR: AYMEN EL HANKOURI
COUNTRY: MOROCCO
KIDAWA
PRODUCER: DEOGRATUS SURAH AND FLORENCE MKINGA
DIRECTOR: FLORENCE MKINGA
COUNTRY: TANZANIA
MBALI
PRODUCER: TINYIKO MVELASE, NINA VAN RENSBURG, LOURENS VAN RENSBURG, JOZUA MALHERBE
DIRECTOR: HLUMELA MATIKA
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
OUR IDENTITY
PRODUCER: OLIVER MEDJIGBODO
DIRECTOR: DOSSOU GILDAS
COUNTRY: BENIN
THE LAST SCAR
PRODUCER: DIEUDONNÉ ALAKA
DIRECTOR: STELLA TCHUISSE
COUNTRY: CAMEROON
THE ROBOT’S LAST JOB
PRODUCER: XOLANI NHLAPHO
DIRECTOR: NEO SIBIYA
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
DOCUMENTARY SELECTION
BLACK PEOPLE DON'T GET DEPRESSED
PRODUCER: CATI WEINEK
DIRECTOR: SARA CHITAMBO
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
I MIGHT NOT NORMALLY SHARE THIS
PRODUCER: SHEHAB SHAHEEN
DIRECTOR: NOURA SHARAF
COUNTRY: EGYPT
NO WINNERS IN WAR
PRODUCER: CAROL O. KEOSEDILE
DIRECTOR: TRICIA LAONE SELLO
COUNTRY: BOTSWANA
NZONZING
PRODUCER: NO PRODUCER
DIRECTOR: MOIMI WEZAM
COUNTRY: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
TO BE LOVED
PRODUCER: ARNOLD SETOHOU
DIRECTOR: JUSTIN PALAKIYEM KPATCHAA
COUNTRY: TOGO
THEIR CHOIR
PRODUCER: ADDOU MERIEME
DIRECTOR: ZINEB CHAFCHAOUNI
COUNTRY: MOROCCO
THE KINGDOM OF MASINDI
PRODUCER: NO PRODUCER
DIRECTOR: DOWELANI EDWARD NENZHELELE
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
ANIMATION SELECTION
THE FAM
PRODUCER: DR TSHEPO P. MAAKA
DIRECTOR: KABELO MAAKA
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
THE ELECTED
PRODUCER: NO PRODUCER
DIRECTOR: KOSSI MESSAN AKODA
COUNTRY: TOGO
LWANDA MAGERE
PRODUCER: MARK KINUTHIA
DIRECTOR: MARK KINUTHIA
COUNTRY: KENYA
TV SERIES SELECTION
THE OATH
PRODUCER: BONIE SITHEBE AND JULIE HALL
DIRECTOR: JOHANNES MZWANDILE SPIRIT
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
DILEMA
PRODUCER: LUCY MWANGI
SCREENWRITER: VOLINE OGUTU
COUNTRY: TANZANIA
LEVIATHAN
PRODUCER: PEDRO SOULÉ
DIRECTOR: NUNO PEREIRA
COUNTRY: CAPE VERDE
INSIDE
PRODUCER: INGABIRE DELICE
SCREENWRITER: DENIS VALERY NDAYISH
COUNTRY: RWANDA
2019 OFFICIAL PROJECT SELECTION
Download 2019 Project dossierFICTION
Day of the Vow
Producers: David Franciscus, Nicki Priem
Producer/Writer: Marlie S. Jacobs
Director: David Franciscus
Country: South Africa
Mami Wata
Producer: Oge Obasi
Director: C.J.Obasi
Country: Nigeria
Mkhulu Wase Next Door
Producer: Bongiwe Selane, Brendan C. Campbell
Director: Xolelwa Nhlabatsi,
Country: South Africa
PIECES OF SALMA
Producer: Khosie Dali, David Horler
Director: Imran Hamduay
Country: South Africa
Sunflowers In The Dark
Producer: Tapiwa Chipfupa
Director: Ben Mahaka
Country: Zimbabwe
The Bursary
Producer: Brett Michael Innes
Director: Nomawonga Khumalo
Country: South Africa
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos
Producer: James Tayler, Megan Chapman, Andrew Maki,Mat Cerf,Joel Bolnick
Director: Know Your City Radical Co-creative Film Collective
Country: Nigeria/South Africa
Those Who Dwell in Darkness
Producer: Dolly Mhlongo, Sithabile Mkhize
Director: Michael Van Niekerk
Country: South Africa
Tunis-Djerba
Producer: Asma Chiboub
Director: Amel Guellaty
Country: Tunisia
Yam w ana
Producer: Hala Lotfy, Ruba Atiyeh, Nadine Salib
Director: Nadine Salib
Country: Egypt
DOCUMENTARIES
Africa Mother
Producer: Koussoubé Abdoul Karim
Director: Yssouf Koussé
Country: Burkina Faso
A Suitcase of Memories
Producer: Engelbert Phiri
Director: Zinzi Nkenene
Country: South Africa
Black Women and Sex
Producer: Godisamang Khunou
Director: Godisamang Khunou
Country: South Africa
Kongo is Burning
Producer: Ali Musoke
Director: Arnold Aganze
Country: Uganda/Congo
Living like a shadow
Producer: Romeo Umulisa
Director: Claudine Ndimbira
Country: Rwanda
Murder in Paris - Dulcie September
Producer: Liezel Vermeulen and Enver Samuel
Director: Enver Samuel
Country: South Africa
The Home
Producer: Chase Musslewhite, Justin Cohen
Director: Jessie Zinn
Country: South Africa
The Last Survivor
Producer: Mark Lotfy
Director: Muhammad Taymour
Country: Egypt
The Missing Middle
Producer: Nomakhomazi Dewavrin
Director: Okuhle Dyosopu
Country: South Africa
When Shadows Move (DFM 2018 Durban Talents Award)
Director/Prod: Jacqui-Lee Katz
Director/Prod: Aliki Saragas-Georgiou
Country: South Africa
REALNESS RESIDENCY
The Lunar Songbook
Filmmaker: Athi-Patra Ruga
Country: South Africa
The Last Tears of The Deceased
Filmmaker: Beza Hailu Lemma
Country: Ethiopia
The Spirit Guests
Filmmaker: Fanyana Hlabangane
Country: South Africa
Coura+Ouleye
Filmmaker: Iman Djionne
Country: Senegal
Miles
Filmmaker: Silas Miami
Country: Kenya
2018 Official Project SelectionFICTION
Blood & Honey
Producer: Mohamed Siam, Guillaume de Seille
Director: Mohamed Siam
Country: Egypt
Insila kashaka
Producer: Sibongile Nene
Director: Brian Khawula, Sibongile Nene
Country: South Africa
Nyanga / The Horn
Producer: Sue-Ellen Chitunya, Brett Michael Innes
Director: Brett Michael Innes
Country: Zimbabwe
Snake
Producer: Paul Egan, Mustapha Hendricks and Stanford Gibson
Director: Meg Rickards
Country: South Africa
Streams
Producer: Moufida Fedhila
Director: Mehdi Hmili
Country: Tunisia
Of Virtue
Producer: David Horler
Director: Imran Hamdulay
Country: South Africa
Plunderer, The
Producer: Ikechukwu Omenaihe
Director: Didi Cheeka
Country: Nigeria
Porta-Retrato
Producer: Aldino Languana, Osvaldo Lupini Bambamba
Director: Orlando Mabasso Jr.
Country: Mozambique
At Dawn
Producer / Director: Adeyemi Michael
Country: Withheld
Cheese Girl
Producer: Batana Vundla, Marion Isaacs
Director: Milisuthando Bongela
Country: South Africa
Fitrah: To Be as God Created You
Producer: Kelly Scott
Director: Richard Finn Gregory
Country: South Africa
How to Steal a Country
Producer: Zivia Desai, Rehad Desai
Director: Mark Kaplan, Rehad Desai
Country: South Africa
Master's Plan, The
Producer: Hanne Phlypo
Director: Yuri Ceuninck
Country: Cape Verde
Mother City
Producer: Pearlie Joubert, Miki Redelinguys
Director: Pearlie Joubert, Miki Redelinguys
Country: South Africa
Searching for Kikhia
Producer: Desert Power / Christina Carvalho
Director: Jihan Kikhia
Country: Libya
Zinder, The Seeds of Violence
Producer: Clara Vuillermoz, Ousmane Samassekou
Director: Aicha Macky
Country: Niger
2017 OFFICIAL PROJECT SELECTION
Download 2017 Project dossier
FICTION
An African Tale (Kenya)
Producer: Shirleen Wangari
Director: Gilbert Lukalia
Border (Benin)
Producer: Idrissou Mora Kpai
Director: Arouna Sacca Mora Kpai
Borderlines (South Africa)
Producers: Kim Williams and Paul Egan
Director: Meg Rickards
Dabulaphu (Short Cut) (South Africa)
Producers: Kethiwe Ngcobo and David Max Brown
Director: Norman Maake
Matigari (Congo)
Producers: Dilima Luzuko, Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda, Fidelis Duker and Cathy Muigai
Director: Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda
Miles from Nowhere (South Africa)
Producer: Bongiwe Selane
Director: Samantha Nel
Rainbows Don’t Last Long (Egypt)
Producer: Halina Dyrschka
Director: Mayye Zayed
Richard was Here (South Africa)
Producers: Akona Matyila and Jack Chiang
Director: Akona Matyila
The Girl from Wereldend (Namibia)
Producer: Dylan Voogt
Director: Jana Brückner
The Lotus (South Africa)
Producer: Bonita Sithebe
Director: Philani Sithebe
The Sovereign (South Africa)
Producers: Gary King, Cait Pansegrouw and Elias Ribeiro
Director: Wim Steytler
The Woods (South Africa)
Producer: Kofi Zwane
Director: Kofi Zwane
DOCUMENTARIES
As I Want (Zay Mana Aiyza) (Egypt)
Producer: Karim El Hakim
Director: Samaher Alqadi
Behind Closed Doors (Morocco)
Producers: Cyriac Auriol, Hind Saih and Karoline Henkel
Directors: Yakhout Elhabibi
Better Sundays (Kenya)
Producer: Kelvin Kimathi
Director: Lydia Matata
Desterrados (Mozambique)
Producer: Fabio Ribeiro
Director: Yara Costa
Encore (working title) (South Africa)
Producers: Liesel Priem and Jolynn Minnaar
Directors: Jessie Zinn
Lobola, A Bride's True Price (South Africa)
Producer: Sarah Basyouny
Director: Sihle Hlophe
Rajada Dalka (Nation’s Hope) (Somalia)
Producers: Andy Jones, Cynthia Kane, and Lyric R Cabraland
Directors: Hana Mire
Uasi (Working Title) (Kenya)
Producers: Matrid Nyagah and Linda Ogeda
Director: Soko Sam
Womxn: Working(South Africa)
Producer: Tiny Mungwe
Director: Shanelle Jewnarain
Y Revolution (South Africa)
Producer: Suzanne du Toit
Director: Suzanne du Toit
2016 OFFICIAL PROJECT SELECTION
Download 2016 Project dossier
DOCUMENTARY
Dungeon Keepers - South Africa.
Producer: James Walsh
Director: James Walsh
For Your Precious Love – South Africa.
Producer: Stevan Buxt, David Heitner
Director: Keith Jones
Hatim’s Dream - Uganda.
Producer: Nathan Magoola
Director: Matthew Bishanga
Lift like a Girl – Egypt.
Producer: Mayye Zayed
Co-producer: Moritz Helmes
Director: Amrosh Badr
Spirits of the Karoo – South Africa.
Producer: Zinzi Nkenene
Directors: Engelbert Phiri and Zinzi Nkenene
Testament – Kenya.
Producer: Meena Nanji,
Directors: Meena Nanji and Zippy Kimundu
The Letter – Kenya.
Producers: Maia von Lekow and Chris King,
Directors: Maia von Lekow and Chris King
Voetsak! Us, Brothers? – South Africa.
Producer: Trish Urquhart, Co-producer: Sean Moloi,
Director: Andy Spitz
Where we Belong – Ghana/South Africa.
Producer: Osei Owusu Banahene.
Director: Ben Johnson
Wizard of Zim – South Africa.
Producers: Lesedi Oluko Moche and Carolyn Carew,
Director: Samora Sekhukhune
FICTION
Abnormal Loads – South Africa.
Producer: Elias Ribeiro, Cait Panesgrouw.
Director: Neil Coppen
Disco Afrika – Madagascar.
Producer: Razanajaona Ambinintsoa Luck,
Executive Producers: Herizo Rabary and Randriamantsoa,
Director: Razanajaona Ambinintsoa Luck
Down and Dirty – South Africa.
Producers: Damir Radonic and Angie Mills,
Director: Angie Mills
Headland – South Africa.
Producer: David Horler,
Director: Elan Gamaker
Imprisoned – South Africa.
Producer: Suda Sing,
Director: Jayan Moodley
Inga, Inge – Zimbabwe.
Producer: Veronique Doumbe,
Director: Tsitsi Dangarembga
People You May Know – South Africa.
Producer: Laurence Hamburger,
Director: Zandile Tisani
The Mango Tree that Danced with Sea Breeze – Kenya.
Producer: Lungeleni Zondi,
Director: Phillippa Ndsi-Herrmann
Un Fils – Tunisia.
Producer: Habib Attia,
Director: Mehdi M. Barsaoui