The Education of Auma Obama, a Germany / Kenya documentary by Welsh-Nigerian-German filmmaker Branwen Okpako, will open Zimbabwe’s International Images Film Festival (IIFF) on 24 November in Harare. Okpako will be in attendance.
IIFF engages, interrogates and inspires positive images of women and women’s narratives through film screenings. The 2012 IFF is themed “Women Alive’ and runs from 23 November to 1 December.
Some 60 films are to be showcased at this 11th edition of the festival at Ster-Kinekor, Alliance Francaise and the Book Cafe.
The programme includes documentaries, feature and short films that show how women manage to stay alive, and keep others alive in the home, the workplace and the world.
Titles to be screened include Linda Linda Linda (Japan), Fraulein (Switzerland), Queen To Play (France), Lark Farm (Italy), Fiance for Yasmina (Spain) , Madame Dakar (Netherlands), End Of The Road (Iran) and Cultures of Resistance (USA).
Further screenings have been arranged in a sister programme – Shasha/ Ingcitshi/ Zim Experts (SIZE) – with titles such as I Will Marry Myself by Melgin Tafirenyika and Stephen Visser, The In-Laws and Maidei Meets Europe, both by UK-based Zimbabweans Demetria Karongah and Rufaro Kaseke.
(Source: International Images Film Festival)
