Category: Animation section

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A discovery of the market of Begho, a West African trading town, in the 16th century, through the eyes of a little girl named Kassi. Begho is an ancient trading center at the crossroads of several trade routes, occupied between the 11th and 18th centuries. Begho is mentioned and documented in several written sources on West Africa, pre-colonial Ghana and in oral tradition.

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Victoria ARYEE is an archaeologist and assistant lecturer in archaeology and heritage studies. She defines herself as a performing artist and has an interest in art and cultural heritage. She was born and educated in Ghana. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Ghana. She is passionate about encouraging the application of heritage, archaeological studies and tourism as tools for socio-economic development.

Daniel KUMAH is a doctoral student at the University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès in France and a lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon. Since 2017, the Begho site in Ghana has been the focus of his research. Daniel’s research interests include Iron Age societies, urbanization, trans-Saharan archaeology, museum and heritage studies.

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When turning on a simple television becomes a difficult task, APACHA remains determined despite the fact that everything does not go as planned. He has to deal with many unforeseen and the simplest things become all the more complicated.

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Dubien Fortune TSETE was born on September 14, 1995 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, to a father who is a police officer and a mother who is a laboratory technician. After studying law at the Faculty of Law Marien Ngouabi and computer science at the African School of Development EAD where he obtained a BTS in computer programming. Between 2010 and 2016, he followed an in-depth training in computer-assisted imaging and to the art of modern cinema on online training platforms. In 2017, he works as an external consultant in Visual Creation at the local channel TOPTV in Brazzaville and then as a graphic manager at the House DECOUVERTE CONGO. At the origin of a dozen attempts to produce and direct 2D and 3D animation films, Dubien Fortune TSETE has always dreamed of discovering his potential in the sector of animated films in Congo. From 3D modeling to animation, from editing to digital special effects, he is very fulfilled in the manipulation of the image on computer.

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An ancient Egyptian tries to build an inverted pyramid.

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Mohamed GHAZALA is assistant professor of animation and the chair and founder of Cinematic Arts School of Effat University/ Saudi Arabia, besides being the Vice President of the Int’l Animated Film Association, ASIFA, and the founder of its first chapter in Africa and in the Arab world. Ghazala directed and co-directed many awarded films, such as “Carnival” (2001), “Crazy Works” (2002), “HM HM” (2005),”Sayari Yetu” (2006), including the first Yemen’s animated film “Salma” in 2006, and “Honyan’s Shoe” (2009). He gave a number of workshops on animation in different countries and acted as a film
consultant for several international festivals. In 2011, he published his first book under the title “Animation in the Arab World”. His second book with title “Animation in Africa” which published in Egypt 2013. Ghazala mainly concentrates in making independent experimental animated films on his
own or in the course of workshops or art residencies.

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Esther is 6 years old; she lives her carefree life as a little girl until her father abuses her.  Then a little box appears in her life and never leaves her side. As she tries to get rid of it, she discovers her mother’s; but her mother doesn’t see it… until she meets the fascinating Farah.  Three Leaves. Three stories of women exploring the roots of identity, resilience and sisterhood.

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Sephora MONTEAU is a founding member and vice-president of SineNouvèl, an association of committed filmmakers and photographers in Haiti denouncing the lack of film facilities in the country. She is also the founder of Nègès Mawon, a feminist organization.

Eléonore COYETTE captures in her photographs and videos the world’s indocile heartbeat. Her visual grammar is that of a poetess.

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A long, long time ago, on the shores of the great lake of Africa there once lived a superhuman warrior by the name of Lwanda Magere. He had skin of stone and the strength of ten men. Invincible, benevolent and loyal, Lwanda was the hero his people had always longed for, a hero to protect them from the deadly neighbouring raiders. However, the secret source of Lwanda’s powers was the target of his enemies, enemies both from the outside and within.

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Kwame is a Nairobi-based writer, illustrator and animator whose interest lies in creating stories that show a more positive and genuine view of Africa. He is well known for his children’s books A Tasty Maandazi and I Love Ugali and Sukuma Wiki and The Yummiest Githeri. Kwame’s animated short The Legend of Ngong Hills has won many awards worldwide. He has also worked on Tinga Tinga Tales. In 2017 and 2018 Kwame part of the team that won awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for The World’s Most Eligible Bachelor, a campaign supporting northern white rhino conservation.

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Noticing the rapid encroachment of the desert in his village, Yakuba decides to give up everything and to fight against this arid land, practicing a quite special technique of his own.

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Claver YAMEOGO has an extensive experience in comics trip and visual arts in general. In 2008, he attended an initiation training in 2D cartoon at Institut IMAGINE. In 2009, Claver made his debut cartoon called Polo, opening the way to a scholarship in France at EMCA. He has directed two graduation films (Le jour de mes sept ans and Parce que j’ai faim) in 2021; two documentaries in 2013 (Invasion déchets plastiques and Invasion de motos au Burkina Faso) and FALTA (winning an award at the 2017 Animated Film Festival in Abidjan) in 2016.

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For ten years, I’ve pretended to make a movie out of my grandfather’s Algerian war souvenirs. Today, I’m not sure I want to hear what he has to say…

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Bastien DUBOIS earned his diploma in CGI Directing from Supinfocom Valenciennes with his graduation short AH in 2006. Bastien is a keen traveler. It was after he hitch hiked from the north of France to Istanbul that he had the idea of making an animated travel log. His first independent film Madagascar, a Journey Diary was based on a one-year trip to the big red island. This film was very well received and screened in more than 200 international film festivals including Sundance. The film ultimately garnered an Oscar nomination in 2011.
In 2012 he directed a TV program based on Madagascar, a Journey Diary called Faces From Places a series of 20 animated 3 minute travelogue films featuring various countries around the world. In 2013 Bastien released Cargo Cult, an animated short film which is set in Papua New Guinea during the second world war. 

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SouleyMan is a young child and fan of a superhero who rescues people in danger in his city. The superhero inspires him to do good in his neighbourhood.

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2D and 3D illustrator and animator Aloïs AGBOGLO began drawing at the age of 4. He is a self-taught person for there is no animation training school in his country, acquiring his knowledge in this field from Internet. His passion for animation won him several awards and his films have showed at prestigious festivals.

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She doesn’t want her husband to have a voice in their household so that he will not give chores to Salia, while her biological son Alain lives like a prince. It’s rivalry all the time. She goes to a witch doctor to kill Salia so that she doesn’t have anything to inherit. Unfortunately, her son falls victim, another reason for charging Salia.

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Patrick KALUTA has made two documentaries (La rivière Kalimabenge in 2014 and Mai ya moto in 2017), two animated films (Salia, la fille de l’est in 2016 and La montre de chez nous in 2019) and three fictionals (L’heure de la vérité in 2015; La vie dans la main in 2016 and La montre de chez nous in 2018).

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Going against her husband’s wishes, Ayélé secretly sends her daughter Mofiala to study in town. Years later, an epidemic of unknown origin strikes the town. Now a doctor and bacteriology researcher, Mofiala seems to be the ideal person to halt the problem.

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KPADENOU Kossi Hunkpati aka Boris KPADENOU is a 2D animated film director from Togo. After completing his post-graduate studies, he began drawing, his passion. He trained in 2008 as animated film technician at Institut IMAGINE in Burkina Faso. In 2017 he created the Studio ARUKA. Illustrator with several communication agencies, he has made some 2D, 3D commercials and institutional films. His film Mofiala won the Jury Prize at Festival EMERGENCE in 2020.