Africa in Shorts - 1
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Multi-Screening:
1st Kings | Narrative Short | 15 minutes / 2020 | Director: Hilda Afrakoma | Country: Canada
28 Days | Narrative short | 10 minutes / 2019 | Director: Jahëna Louisin | Country: Togo
Le Banc Sur Le Rivage Du Lac (Lakeside Bench) | Narrative Short | 21 minutes / 2018 | Director: Ambrose B. Cooke | Country: Burkina Faso
Aesthetic | Narrative short | 10 minutes / 2019 | Director: Marique Watikins | Country: South Africa
Film(s) To Be Screened
1st Kings
1st Kings | Narrative Short | 15 minutes / 2020 | Director: Hilda Afrakoma | Country: Canada | In the 21st century, a monarch mysteriously disappears leaving the fate of the kingdom to his nephew, a striving fencer who is forced to lead a colonial war.
28 Days
28 Days | Narrative short | 10 minutes / 2019 | Director: Jahëna Louisin | Country: Togo | The young Edem raises alone Pépé, his 11 years old daughter since the sudden death of his wife. Father and daughter find it difficult to find a two-person balance without the presence of their common pillar; but an event in the little girl's life will shake up their relationships…
Le Banc Sur Le Rivage Du Lac (Lakeside Bench)
Le Banc Sur Le Rivage Du Lac (Lakeside Bench) | Narrative Short (French with English subtitles) | 21 minutes / 2018 | Director: Ambrose B. Cooke | Country: Burkina Faso | LE BANC SUR LE RIVAGE DU LAC (Lakeside Bench) unclothes the consequences of some decisions we make in life, probably On A Bench By The Lake. Based on true events that occurred somehow somewhere in Burkina Faso.
Aesthetic
Aesthetic | Narrative short | 10 minutes / 2019 | Director: Marique Watikins | Country: South Africa | A young woman in an art gallery becomes a living painting. She tries to impress the members of the public viewing her in an art gallery. However, the members are all subjects to the idea of patriarchy and toxic masculinity which causes the painting to doubt herself and become defiled with every judgment.
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October 9, 2020, 1:00 pm PST
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