AFRIKAMERA SHORTS

Fabien Dao I France, Burkina Faso I 2019 I 14 min I languages: French, Dioula, Mooré, with English subtitles

Moktar, a bar owner, had always vowed to return to Burkina Faso once he closed down his bar. But when that day arrives, he hesitates. He is visited by spirits, who want to celebrate with him, one last time…

Biography
Fabien Dao was born in Paris, the son of a French teacher and a Burkinabé filmmaker. After studying natural sciences, his passion for music and cinema drew him to study in the sound department at the École nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son in Paris. While he was there, he directed The Boromo’s Caïman. In 2017, he filmed It Rains on Ouaga, then completed the trilogy about his father with Bablinga in 2019.

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Ibrahim Ahmad I Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan I 2020 I 29 min I language: Arabic, English, with English subtitles

This enthralling short documentary accompanies a Sudanese jiu-jitsu team as they travel in a mini-van from Khartoum to Nairobi – carried along by the spirit of the Sudanese revolution – to take part in a competition.

Biography
Ibrahim Ahmad is an award-winning young Sudanese filmmaker. Born in Lebanon, he migrated to Sudan as a teenager in 2006, after the war. Although there was no film school in his home country, he discovered a passion for a career as a filmmaker. Despite being self-taught, he has built a comprehensive network of colleagues and festival programmers from national and international organisations. His documentary film Khartoum Offside was awarded best documentary film by the Africa Movie Academy Awards. You Will Die at 20 was awarded the Golden Lion of the future at the Venice Film Festival 2020, and was the first Sudanese feature film for over a decade to be shown in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

During the most recent Sudanese revolution, Ahmad played a leading role in documenting and processing the atrocities and crimes perpetrated by the old regime, as his contribution to justice and the shaping of a new era for his country.

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Mohamed Kheidr I Egypt I 2021 I 26 min I language: Arabic, with English subtitles

Tuk-tuk tells the story of Walaa, a woman forced to support her family alone after her husband emigrates, leaving her behind. To pay for her children’s schooling and her mother’s medication, Walaa, like so many Egyptian women, takes to the wheel of a tuk-tuk to make ends meet. But to rent the tuk-tuk, Walaa must sign a series of promissory notes, committing to pay back the money in instalments. The film highlights the difficulties women face when they take on roles traditionally occupied by men, and casts a spotlight on the problem of Egyptian women who are forced to take on debt, and are then jailed because they cannot pay back the money borrowed.

Biography
Mohamed Kheidrbegan his artistic career at the age of just 14 as a storyboard creator, going on to study graphic design, and subsequently moving to the Film Academy in New York in 2007.

He aims to use his artistic creativity to change the industry’s view of productions with limited budgets by creating first-class graphics and designs. He has founded his own production house, where he has worked as director, cinematographer, screenwriter, producer, photographer and musician to achieve a variety of projects.

Following the screening, cultural scientist and curator Juana Awad will interview Mohamed Kheidr via Zoom link.

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