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The documentary follows four Zimbabwean Acoustic Night musicians. Exploring the musical inter-cultural exchanges that took place during their three-month sabbatical in Munich at the Villa Waldberta, as they collaborated with German band, Jamaram and other Munich based artists. The program was supported by the Zimbabwe German Society and the City of Munich.

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What is a big corporation capable of in order to protect its brand? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten experienced this recently. His previous film BANANAS!* recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. The film was selected for competition by the Los Angeles Film Festival. Nothing wrong so far, right? But then Gertten gets a strange message: the festival removes BANANAS!* from competition.

Dir: Fredrik Gertten
Country: Sweden
Category: Documentary
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A seasonal south-easterly storm washes up the mutilated body of a Chinese man on a Cape Town beach. For township cop SIZWE MIYA, this is an opportunity to prove himself and earn the promotion he desperately needs. His boss and mentor, VENSKE, gives Sizwe the case but assigns a rookie cop, LEGAMA, to keep an eye on him. ! Sizwe discovers that the homicide is linked to Triad (Chinese mafia) abalone smuggling in Cape Town.

Dir: Carey McKenzie
Country: South Africa (2013)
Category: Feature
Duration: 76min
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He lost everything, until he had nothing… but there was one thing, better yet, something God gave him, bigger and better than anything the zeal to lead

Dir: Mqondisi Ngubane
Country: South Africa
Category: Documentary
Duration: 90min

Benji, a thug bred in the streets of Mbare, impregnates a girl who walks away from her comfortable lifestyle and home to start a life with him. When the relationship goes sour, Benji abandons the girl at his rural homestead, in hopes of burying the implications of his actions. Eight years later, fate finds him out and he is met with the responsibility to look after his daughter. What can he do when his criminal way of life makes it hard for him to father an eight year-old girl?

Dir: Charles Mugaviri Jr.
Country: Zimbabwe
Category: Feature
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Declaring war on all criminal activities, Detective Chanaiwa has built an Elite Team known as the GCG-Team to crack down on two rival gangs, one led by Perry Razemba (his brother-in-law) and the other by The Don (an underground drug dealer). He is the only Officer of the Law with Presidential Credentials and Credibility to cross all Force-Lines. Its Law Enforcement Action non-stop!

Dir: Von Tavaziva
Country: Zimbabwe (2014)
Category: Feature
Duration: 100min

Berlin (East) in autumn 1989: Alex Kerner's mother is in a coma after a heart attack and misses the fall of the Berlin Wall. She awakes in summer 1990. Her doctor declares that excitement of any kind could be fatal. Alex must conceal the fall of the SED regime from her. He and his friends pretend to the sick woman that the GDR still exists; the illusion remains perfect until one day the truth can no longer be concealed.

Dir: Wolfgang Becker
Country: Germany (2003)
Category: Feature
Duration: 120min

In late 2012, Tanzanian media reported that centenarian singer and national cultural icon Bi Kidude had been kidnapped by a relative who claimed that longtime musical and business associates were mistreating her. I Shot Bi Kidude chronicles the strange final months of a music legend while telling how a white filmmaker from England's West Midlands forged an abiding bond with Africa's oldest singer.

Dir: Andy Jones
Country: UK, Tanzania (2015)
Category: Documentary
Duration: 74min

Thando comes out of prison a changed person with the hope that the society has changed also. She is suprised nothing has changed, her enemies are the same and her challenges are consistent. Journey home is Thando's struggle trying to fit back into the society that has rejected her.

Dir: Vincent Ngwenya
Country: Zimbabwe
Category: Feature
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16 ordinary people climbed, (9 from Zimbabwe) to the Summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro to change the lives of 60. Some of the travelers have never been in a tent, others have never even seen snow - let alone sleep in it. This film follows the 6 day journey of their uphill battle and reflects the challenge that orphans face every day. The documentary rides the waves of humor, defeat, and adventure as diverse personalities climb to Uhuru Peak.

Dir: Ben Deuschle
Country: Zimbabwe (2014)
Category: Documentary
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Billy is a young boy of 18 years old and he decides to fight against the boko-harram terrorist group who kill everybody in his country.

Dir: Anda Jean Marc
Country: Cameroon
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Dir: Michel K. Zongo
Country: France, Burkina Faso, Germany, Qatar (2015)
Category: Documentary
Duration: 90min

Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony. This film chronicles the everyday violence experienced by Sahrawis living under Moroccan occupation and voices the aspirations of a desert people for whom the era of colonialism never ended.

Dir: Iara Lee
Country: Western Sahara/Spain/United States (2015)
Category: Documentary
Duration: 59min

A short film based on an illusional wedding. Makanaka, a thirty-three year old virgin is lured by peer pressure, desperation and the love for material gains and supernatural powers to abruptly marry her charming boyfriend Evans. Unbeknown to her the wedding is just but a sacrificial ceremony.

Dir: Angeline Dimingo
Country: Zimbabwe (2014)
Category: Short
Duration: 20min

A tale of unrequited love and unexplored desires. A young man meets his childhood love one rainy night in the city of dreams. When they both realise that the desire for more can ruin what is special between them do they listen to their head or their heart?

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Country: India (2013)
Category: Feature
Duration: 100min

On the auspicious day when Godfrey launches the first Tanzanian cellular company, he is involved in a fatal accident. Haunted by his series of choices, our young ambitious entrepreneur reveals more than one face of ‘Africa rising’.

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Zimbabwe has a dilema in leadership serving compounded by in effective monitoring and evaluation of the electorate needs. The gender construct dominate.

Dir: Priscilla Sithole Ncube
Country: Zimbabwe
Category: Documentary
Duration: 13.55min

Set in a busy street of Dar es Salaam, a shoeshine boy offers us a conscious and subconscious perspective of the space and people of his city ranging from the local politician to University students as well as the neighbor tea maker. This short-film is both a social commentary and an artistic depiction of the life, aspirations and perspectives of a working child. 

Dir: Amil Shivji
Country: Tanzania
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