The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) is pleased to announce the official selection of films in competition for 2018. The festival will take place in various venues in and around Stone Town Zanzibar from July 7th – 15th 2018.
This year saw a record number of entries across all categories with over 4,000 film submitted across the various entry platforms. This year also saw a marked increase in the amount of documentaries submitted, with over 800 being entered for consideration. With nearly 400 features being submitted, the selection process for 2018 was extremely difficult.
Entries were also received from all over the world with submissions coming from over 140 countries, with the USA and India leading the number of submissions. East African filmmakers have also shown amazing interest in ZIFF with Ugandan filmmakers submitting 55 films, 54 from Kenya, and Tanzania 31.
The films in selection cross a broad spectrum of topics and genres and represent over 40 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda South Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Western Sahara, Niger, Iran, The United States, France, Ghana, Belgium, Tunisa, Swaziland, India, United Kingdom and many more.
Festival Director Fabrizio Colombo had this to say of the selection process and the final line-up:
“The sheer number of film submissions for ZIFF 2018 was a surprise. It is rewarding to see how much our Festival is growing and is attracting so many filmmakers around the world, but especially from our continent. We tried to stick close to our theme for this year, celebrating the courage of many filmmakers who are telling the truth and speaking out for positive change in this world. Surely, some films selected will shake the power systems and old mentalities and that is what cinema is all about, challenging perceptions and imagining a different world.
Finally, I’m glad to see the potentiality of the cinema industry in East Africa, and I have to mention particularly the creativity of young Tanzanian filmmakers that through their short films are truly showing the new wave of cinema in Tanzania. We invite all cinema lovers to join us this year in Zanzibar!”
The official selection for Best Web, TV, and Student films will also be announced shortly. For more information please visit www.ziff.or.tz
Features
18 Hours
Kenya – Njue Kevin
Bahasha
Tanzania – Jordan Riber
Balon
Italy – Pasquale Scimeca
Fatuma
Tanzania – Jordan Riber
Golnesa
Iran – SATTAR CHAMANI GOL
Hakkunde
Nigeria – Asurf oluseyi
Kasala
Nigeria – EMA EDOSIO
Liyana
Swaziland – Aaron Kopp
Love and Shukla
India – JATLA SIDDARTHA
Majan
Iran – Mohammad Aladpoush
Safari
Tanzania – Freddy Feruzi
Segere
Tanzania – Takura Maurayi
Supa Modo
Kenya – Likarion Wainaina
The Cut
Kenya – Peter Wangugi Gitau
The Forbidden
Uganda – Kizito Samuel Saviour
The Great Muse
Saudi Arabia – Bentley Brown
The Wedding Ring
Niger – Rahmatou Keita
When I become a Butterfly
Iran – Arash Zaare
Days of Night
Tanzania – Nilesh Bhatt
The Desert Voices
Morocco – Daoud AOULAD-SYAD
Documentaries
3 Stolen Cameras
Western Sahara – RåFILM, Equipe Media
A Memory In Three Acts
Mozambique – Inadelso Cossa
Afia Attack: Trading Behind Enemy Line
Nigeria – Ujuaku Akukwe
BURKINABÈ RISING: the art of resistance in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – Iara Lee
Children of Drum: The Legacy of Black Journalists in Apartheid-era South Africa
USA/SA/SPAIN – Larry Tung
Common Threads-Fabrics from India for Africa
India – Renu Modi
Dancedance/RE♦VOLUTION
South Africa – MARK FREEMAN
Effatà Road
Italy – MARTINO LO CASCIO
Fearless
United States – Jasmine Cannon, Branden Hampton, Yingxu Jane Hao
Ghana For You
Belgium/Ghana – Adams Mensah
I am Sheriff
Southafrica – TEBOHO EDKINS
In the name of Your Daughter
Canada/Tanzania – Giselle Portenier
Kimpa Vita: The Mother of the African Revolution
DRC/Angola – NE KUNDA NLABA
Kinshasa Makambo
DRC – Dieudo Hamadi
Making Ends Meet
Zimbabwe – Thomas Muziyirwa
New Moon
Kenya – Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann
Nice Very Nice
Algeria – El Kheyer Zidani
Owino
Spain/Kenya
Javier Marín, Yusuf Razzaque
Poetry is My Rifle
Brazil
Fernando Salinas, Victor Hugo Liporage
SILAS: No more business as usual
Liberia/Kenya/USA – Hawa Essuman
Sing it Loud – Luthers Heirs in Tanzania
Germany – Julia Irene Peters, Co Director: Jutta Feit
Skulls
South Africa/Germany/Namibia
Vincent Moloi
The Flesh Business
Kenya – Denis Wanjohi Maina
Vivre Riche
France/Ivory Coast – Joël Akafou
Voodoo
USA – Djimon Hounsou
Wahenga (The Ancestors)
Tanzania – Amil Issa Shivji, Rebecca Corey
Who Am I
Kenya – Nick Reding, Wanuri Kahiu
Your Music Your Voice
Uganda – Edmond Tamale
Zone-III (3)
Central African Republic – France – Pascale SERRA
Birds
Algeria – Berkri Salima Louisa
Short Films
15 MINUTES
DRC – SADY
AL SHEIKH NOEL
Iraq – SAAD AL-ESSAMY
ANTANANARIVO
Madagascar – HAMINIAINA RATOVOARIVONY
ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL?!
Iran – MOHAMMAD BAKHSHI
ARMSTRONG
Nigeria – OMORUYI IRABOR
AYA
Tunisia – MOUFIDA FEDHILA
BLIND DATE
South Africa – FANYANA HLABANGANE
BOXED
Kenya/USA – WANJIRU NJENDU
BROKEN DREAM
Tanzania – FRANCIS NYERERE
CALLING THE STARS
Ethiopia – ADANECH ADMASSU
CARVER
Rwanda – Alexandre Sibomana
CLENCH – LIFE OF A CREATIVE
Kenya – MARK AYABEI
FIGURE
United Kingdom – LANRE MALAOLU
FORGIVE ME, FATHER
United Kingdom – DOREEN NASIMBWA
HATIA
Tanzania – CHRISTINA PANDE
HATUA KWA HATUA/STEP BY STEP
Tanzania
JUDITH
I KNOW YOU DON’T
India
VISHAL ASHOK JAISWAL
ICYASHA
Rwanda
CLEMENTINE DUSABEJAMBO
IMARA
Kenya/Rwanda
SAMUEL WANJOHI
IMFURA
Switzerland/Rwanda
SAMUEL ISHIMWE
IN MY FATHER’S VILLAGE
Zimbabwe
TAPIWA KAPUYA
Les Cordes du Destin/Destiny’s Strings
Lamia Bengelloun – Morocco
Mma Moeketsi
RAE MOETI – South Africa
MY CHILDREN
Louis Shoo -Tanzania
Mzazi Rafiki
Yaki Bozi – Tanzania
Neophobia
Mark Maina -Kenya
KANIAMA SHOW
Belgium – BALOJI TSHIANI
KUNCUP
Indonesia – M. MYRDAL MUDA
KYENVU
Uganda – KEMIYONDO COUTINHO
LEAH
Tanzania – ESTHER MNDEME
NJITI
Tanzania – DORICE MOLLEL
NOMFUNDO
South Africa – SIHLE HLOPHE
PENDO
Kenya – FAITH MUSEMBI
RAAT (NIGHT)
Pakistan – ABDULLAH WASEEM
RANIM/ESCAPE
Tunisia – RIM NAKHLI
SACRILÈGE
Switzerland/France – CHRISTOPHE M. SABER
STILL WATER RUNS DEEP
USA/Nigeria – ABBESI AKHAMIE
SUKARI
Tanzania – HATIBU MADUDU
TAMALA
Tanzania – GOODHOPE ELIESKIA
THE BAD MEXICAN
Uganda – LOUKMAN ALI
THE DEEP PLACE
Ghana – LINDSAY BRANHAM , ANDREW MICHAEL ELLIS
THE ISLAND
Rwanda – YUHI AMULI
THE SCHOOL BAG
India – DHEERAJ JINDAL
UNTIL THE SILENCE COMES
South Africa – PULENG STEWART, JANNOUS AUKEMA
VERSNEL
South Africa – DIAN WEYS
VISIONS
Nigeria – ABBA T. MAKAMA, C.J. OBASI, MICHAEL GOUKEN OMONUA
WHAT YOU CALL LOVE
Turkey – Firat Yavuz
WHITE ON BLACK
Senegal- SAMBA DIAO, FRANCOIS JOANNON
ZAWADI
Tanzania – CLOTILDE BERTET
ZENITH
USA – ELLIE FOUMBI
African Animation
Enjoying Songs
Madagascar – Sitraka Raheriarivony
DAWN OF THUNDER
Nigeria – Kolawole Olarewaju
“CRUSH”
Nigeria – Stephen Iosun
GOT FLOWERS TODAY
Nigeria – JIBRIL MAILAFIA
The red butterfly
Tunisia – Omar Belwaer
A Kalabanda Ate My Homework
Uganda – Raymond Malinga
Tiraogo
Burkina Faso – André Daniel TAPSOBA, Wilfrid j de dieu
Lullaby from the Crypt
South Africa – Earle Holmes
Nguema
Tanzania
Belly Flop
South Africa – JEREMY COLLINS KELLY DILLON
Web Series
America Heard: Refuge of Hope
United States – Yasmin Mistry
Chronicles of a Paranoiac
Russian Federation
Nikita Tamarov
Connection House
Italy – Vincenzo Cavallo
Festival Politicos
South Africa- Tshego “Red” Mosiane, Misa Makwakwa Masokameng
KINSHASA COLLECTION
Germany – Dorothee Wenner
LOOP
Mexico – Fernando Perezgil, Gerardo LS, Emmanuel Basurto
Nadya
Tanzania – Shams Bhanji
Nekros Pizza
United States – Sean Manos
Ngalangala
Tanzania – Tom Johns
Our Best Friend’s Wedding
Nigeria – Jerry Ossai
Prime Donne
Italy – Giacomo Spaconi
PULPETTE
Italy – Michele Bevilacqua, Arcangelo Iannace , Francesco Spaziani
Seburikoko
Rwanda – Kennedy Mazimpaka
SHADOWS
Kenya – Reuben Odanga
SUBS
South Africa – Tshego ‘Red’ Mosiane, Tseliso Monaheng
Tales of Shaa Umi and Nandis Adventure
Zimbabwe – Rodney Tapfuma Masanga
The Yard
Kenya – Busaka Jackton
Thesha
South Africa – Lungelo Mdlalose
Two sides of a coin
Kenya – Morris Simwa, Calvin Ombogo
WAKUIGWA
Richard Magumba – Tanzania
TV Series
# Family
Kwezi kaganda Ruhinda – Uganda
BA-AUNT
MARIAM NDAGIRE – Uganda
Ball’n Africa
Silalei Owuor – Kenya
Before 30
Bodunrin ‘BB’ Sasore- Nigeria
Career Talk
Saitabao Kaiyare – Kenya
Crazy, Lovely, Cool –
Obi Emelonye – Nigeria
Fihi Season
Carol Odongo Boy – Kenya
Giving Nature a Voice
Andrew Tkach (Executive Producer) – Kenya
Hard Copy
South Africa – Harriet Gavshon and Tim Greene (Producers)
iNumber Number
South Africa – Siphiwe Hlabangane (producer)
Jab
Lucilla Blankenberg, Laddie Bosch – South Africa
KERU
Victor Gatonye – Kenya
La Msingi
Morrison Mwadulo – Kenya
SAMBA
Enah Johnscott- Cameroon
SIRI ZA FAMILIA
SANCTUS MTSIMBE – Tanzania
Slavery Routes
Fanny Glissant – France
Talaaka
Nilesh Bhatt – Tanzania
Tales Of Eve | The Present Past
Imoh Umoren – Nigeria
The wives
Benjamin Onyango – Kenya
THIS IS IT
Dolapo Adeleke – Nigeria
Tumaini Senta
Kangethe – Mungai Kenya
Umlilo
Denny Miller – South Africa
Film School
Cash My Cart
Uganda – Edmond Tamale
IT HAS KILLED MY MOTHER
Congo Democratic Republic – Amina Rwimo Hortence
Just a scene
Nigeria – White Adeniyi
Bubbles
Egypt – Kareem AlGohary
White-Black and Happy
Benin – Glele-Aboucha Cornélia
Sukut
Rwanda – Ganza Moise
The Mob
Ghana – Gamel Apalayine
O-Puncha
South Africa – Adam Hansen
Bear
South Africa – Wesley Roodt
The Pearl Boxer
Tanzania – John Bibagamba
The Walk Home
South Africa – Sisanda Dyantyi
Canal Street
South Africa – Brodie Muirhead
Mallemeule
South Africa – Jaco Van Bosch
Life in My Shoe
Uganda – Wimana Beatrice, Dennis Onen
The hope
Morocco – Pape Abdoulaye SECK
Misfit
Kenya – Karanja Ng’endo
