Category / AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE / Films 2024 / FR 15 NOV 2024 EN

AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Walt Mzengi Corey |
Tanzania 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 13 min
| This captivating fantasy drama, starring an all-amateur cast, tells the story of a little girl born at the beginning of the dry season who sets out on a perilous journey with a mysterious rainbird to end the devastating drought afflicting her community.

AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Awa Moctar Gueye |
Senegal 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 16 min | Goo Pa Kong-Kong is an eerie man. No one knows what he carries in the strange bag on his shoulders, but it is rumored that he tortures naughty children. He lives alone in Ñetty Mbar, a desolate, gloomy market on the outskirts of Dakar. Not a place for children, but that doesn’t stop Binta, a curious and brave girl who has just drawn the white marble that makes her the leader of her gang of children. She decides to confront Pa Kong-Kong on his turf. She is afraid, but she is determined to prove that girls can be leaders. So she sets off. It is pitch dark in the market. What will she discover?

AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Amartei Armar |
Ghana / France 2022 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 20 min |
Three defining moments in Ghana’s history from 1948 to the present are reflected in the experiences of three women, whose souls, representative of their generation, are unwittingly connected through space, time and ancestral heritage. As each of them discovers who she is, one thing becomes clear: hope must prevail.

AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Morad Mostafa |
Egypt/ France/ Qatar 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 25 min |
Ai Shams, a neighborhood in Cairo: After a violent incident, Eissa, a 17-year-old African migrant in Egypt, finds himself in a race against time to save his young wife and baby, whatever the cost. A moving film, full of humanity despite all the bleakness.

AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Beza Hailu Lemma |
Ethiopia/ France/ Canada 2024 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 35 min |
A farming community in Ethiopia is confronted with existential questions when the body of a family patriarch mysteriously disappears from his grave. Beza Hailu Lemma’s deeply moving drama explores the consequences.