The AFTT is here again, and opens with a night of film, fashion and festivity at The Central Bank Auditorium on Monday 23rd, July 2018, in Trinidad and Tobago. The featured film L’Orage Africain (2017) will make its Caribbean premiere, captivating audiences worldwide and won the Silver Bear Award at FESPACO 2017, Africa’s biggest film festival and leading cultural event.
Aside the segment of the African Classics Series, celebrating the iconic Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop this year with his film Touki, NollyWatch is back. All lined up for segment are AY Makun’s 10 Days in Sun City, Isoken and Green White Green.
Frankly, I think there are marginally better Nollywood movies to be beamed to audiences in the AFTT auditorium. On July 20, Ema Edosio’s Kasala will have another shot at the film festival circuit, a reckless, youth-centric movie about four teenage boys trying to find a solution to a car problem before the end of day.
Critically acclaimed South African queer film Inexba (The Wound) will feature in the AFTT main programme, including Mandela’s Gun, based on Nelson Mandela’s experience as a guerrilla fighter for the African National Congress.
The Africa Film Trinidad and Tobago is an annual film festival that showcases the very best of contemporary and classic films from the African continent, and closes this year July 29th.
When Bernard Dayo isn’t writing about pop culture, he’s watching horror movies and reading comics and trying to pretend his addiction to Netflix isn’t a serious condition.
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