As part of Animation First's African Animation sidebar they are running six shorts by African filmmakers. I am not going to go deeply into them as I would have liked because of an error on my part and error on the festival website (the run time lists the whole collection is 38 minutes, it's twice that) left me with window where I would have no time to actually write up the collection properly.
That said there is some stunning work here with a look and feel all their own. It is definitely worth a look.
BLACK BARBIE
An African girl rejects a black Barbie. An excellent meditation on how "white" is considered better.
THE CORA PLAYER
A beautiful little romance that is filled with wonderful music
AFROPOWER
A very pointed and very good short about exploitation and colonialism
L'AMBOUBA
A woman goes shopping.
A bright and beautiful film with a great soundtrack.
FADE
Jaw dropping animation about a man who is fading.
Forgive me the animation just stunned me. Some of this is just magnificent
PRINC LOSENO
Beautifully animated in stop motion fairy tale, The longest of the shorts (it runs a half an hour, it is full meal tale of kings and queens and kingdoms. A must see.
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