This Saturday (30 November) marks the opening of Wales’s first ever African Film Festival.
The eight-day festival will host 12 feature length films, workshops, master-classes and panel discussions held at the Culture and Media Centre in Butetown, Cardiff University and the Atrium.
BAFTA-winning Welsh Zambian director, Rugano Nyoni, who is running a scriptwriting master-class, said: “The festival is much-needed in Wales.”
Films showcased throughout the festival will vary from documentaries, comedy and cartoons.
The festival aims to play homage to Wales’s historic connections with African, which dates back more than 200 years, when Somali seafarers, recognised as economic migrants, came to Wales to work in the docks.
Wales Africa Film Festival organiser, Fadhili Maghiya, said: “There has been a growing mutual-relationship between Wales and the continent, highlighted by the diverse African communities you find in Wales.
“After months of debating, negotiating, contemplating, hoping and wishing that this day will come, I am proud to present such a wide range of activities. It’s a real opportunity to celebrate Wales’s long history with Africa through film.”
For more information about the film festival, visit here.
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