#NAFF - April 1 - 18 2021

Africa World Now Project

The 17th edition of the New African Film Festival takes place online April 1–18, 2021 presenting a lineup of outstanding contemporary African cinema for audiences in the Washington, DC, area and beyond. the festival is co-presented by Africa World Now Project, afrikafé and AFI. The New African Film Festival showcases the vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent and across the diaspora, featuring 33 films from 26 countries, including six submissions for the Academy Award® for Best International Feature.

Opening with Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's multi-award-winning drama THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION, winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and the first film from Lesotho to be submitted to Academy Awards®. The festival closes with a new 2K restoration of Tunisian director Férid Boughedir's landmark survey of African cinema, CAMÉRA D'AFRIQUE, which was originally selected to close the 2020 edition of the New African Film Festival. Almost all films in the lineup will be available to view online across the entire United States.

Link: https://naff.eventive.org/welcome

Audio: The Last Poets & Metropole Orkest; 50th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, De Doelen, 13th June 2019