Scotland's African In Motion Film Festival Screening Lineup Announced
The 9th edition of the Africa In Motion Film Festival, Scotland's African Film Festival, returns to Glasgow later this month to showcase the best in African cinema with the theme "Looking Back, Reaching Forward." Last year's event featured several of our Top Films Of 2013, including Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Kwaku Ananse, and Jahmil XT Qubeka‘s noir-thriller Of Good Report. This year, festival organizers have curated a well-rounded program that features a number of films and documentary projects featured in this column over the past few months, including Spoek Mathambo's Future Sound Of Mzansi, the FOKN Bois' Ghanaian pidgen musical sequal Coz of Moni II, South Africa's "first dance film" Hear Me Move, Nigerian dark comedy Confusion Na Wa and Afronauts, the space age short from Ghanaian director Frances Bodomo. This year's festival will also include a special program track dedicated to 20 years of South African democracy that will feature interactive workshops, live music performances and lectures in addition to a UK-wide Freedom Tour of Mzansi cinema. The Africa In Motion Film Festival is scheduled to take place from October 29th through November 4th. Watch the trailer for this year's festival here, and visit the official website for more information and the full schedule of screenings.
