Programs and Events
Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story
Rating: PG
Year of Production: 2023
Country: South Africa
Friday 19 July, 7PM
Leaders are born out of many circumstances, including the need to grow up fast. Siya Kolisi had no other choice in the harsh challenges of his upbringing. Trials and tribulations gave way to a leader, and fittingly, the first Black captain of the South Africa national rugby union team. Hear from the man himself alongside family, friends, teammates, and more, as they weave together the grand tale of just who and what makes the Springboks legend so incomparable.
Baada Ya Masika (After the Long Rains)
Rating: PG
Year of Production: 2023
Country: Switzerland & Kenya
Saturday 20 July, 11 AM
Ten year old Aisha is given a school assignment to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realises that everyone is taking over their parents‘ businesses and professions, but she has bigger dreams. She wants to go to Europe and become an actress. Her plan is to become a fisher so that she can sail to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men.
Collette and Justin
Rating: PG
Year of Production: 2022
Country: Congo
Saturday 20 July, 2:30 PM
This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? And, by extension, how much does he know about himself? In Colette et Justin, Kassanda travels through time and his own past, in the process bringing postcolonial Congo to evocative life.
Short Film Collection
Rated: PG Recommended
Saturday 20 July, 5:00 PM
From Africa, France, and Australia, dive into the poignant stories of Africans as they navigate the challenges and triumphs of identity, heritage, and reconnection in a series of compelling short films. Following the screening will be a Q&A session with local and international filmmakers
Afrofutures Animation
Rated: PG Recommended
Saturday 20 July, 10AM-12:00 PM
WHERE: Arts & Cultural Exchange, 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta
Free
Africa Film Fest Australia presents a program of two short animation films, ‘Self’ (2024) and ‘Afro Algorithms’ (2022), exploring Afrofutures genres produced by international African filmmakers.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Nigerian-Australian animator and games art director Edi Udo, and Jamaican-Australian multimedia artist and animator Rubeena King, as well as special international guest Searit Huluf from Pixar’s SparkShorts program.
Banel and Adama
Rated: M
Year of Production: 2023
Country: Senegal and Mali
Saturday 20 July, 8:15 PM
Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists. Yet their perfect everlasting love is on a collision course with their community’s customs. Because in this world, there is no room for passion, let alone chaos.
All The Colours of the World are Between Black and White
Rated: M
Year of Production: 2023
Country: Nigeria
Sunday 21 July, 12:00 PM
Bambino has resigned himself to a solitary life, until he meets the charming Bawa. Drawn into his attempts to win a photography competition, Bambino joins Bawa on his explorations of Lagos in search of the perfect shot, as model and muse. But as Nigeria’s anti-gay laws loom, both struggle to acknowledge the growing affection between them.
Winner of the Teddy Award for best queer film at Berlinale
Girl
Rated: PG Recommended
Year of Production: 2023
Country: UK
Sunday 21 July, 2:30 PM
Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama’s thirst for life and her need to grow and develop, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.
The Last Queen
Rated: M
Year of Production: 2022
Country: Algeria, France and Saudi Arabia
Sunday 21 July, 5 PM
Algeria, 1516. The pirate Aruj Barbarossa frees Algiers from the tyranny of the Spanish and seizes power over the kingdom. Rumor has it he murdered the King Salim Toumi, despite their alliance. Against all odds, one woman will stand up to him: Queen Zaphira. Between history and legend, this woman’s journey tells of a struggle, of personal and political turmoil endured for the sake of Algiers.
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