Shorts Series 2: African Film Festival Atlanta 2025
AFFATL is back for its 4th edition. This series of shorts explores the theme: echoes of the mind
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Cinefest Film Theatre
66 Courtland Street Southeast #262 Atlanta, GA 30303Refund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 2 hours 14 minutes
The African Film Festival Atlanta, now in is 4th year series of Shorts 2
Act of Love(2023)
Act of love (2023) Synopsis
Kenya| 26 minutes 9 seconds
Juliana, a young mother, is pushed to the edge by the daily struggle of life in Nairobi. When her support system crumbles over the course of one day, she must decide whether she is able to care for her young child.
Winner Best Short Film at the Mashariki African Film Festival. Best short film at the Mombasa International Film Festival and best short film at theLuxor African Film Festival
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Film maker bio - Eric Mwangi
Eric Mwangi is a Cinematographer and Director with filmmaking experience in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. His goal is to bring an African perspective to the global pool of life-changing stories, thereby contributing to the expansion of the African Cinema language. His stories focus on ordinary characters with unique drive and faced with impossible odds who are pushing the boundaries to create systemic change for the benefit of all.
His projects range from Documentaries, TV commercials and brand films to short films and feature films, working through production houses such as Zero Point Zero Productions [New York], Zeleman Productions [Ethiopia], YCF Productions [Zambia], Docubox [Kenya], One Fine Day Films and LBX Africa [Kenya], Skoll Foundation [USA], Freestyle Media [Kenya] among others.
Some of his career highlights include filming for the National Geographic Explorer Series on the ongoing Rhino Resurrection episode with Ami Vitale and Taylor Rees; Cinematography for the acclaimed Zambian TV drama UBUNTU, a first from that country on Showmax; a Netflix sizzle reel with Academy Award-Winning Director Roger Ross Williams; Emmy Award-Winning Documentary TV Show Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown; among others. He is also an alumnus of the American Film Showcase documentary residency at USC, California.
Days Between Rest (2024)
Days Between Rest (2024) Synopsis
United States of America, Uganda| 11 minutes 42 seconds
Rachel Namudosi is a third generation Jewish Ugandan, and she is the lead singer of her very musical family. This film follows Rachel through her hectic daily life as she takes her four children to school, makes music with her family, and leads Shabbat (sabbath) services at her synagogue. Along the way, Rachel shares her moving story with us: the painful antisemitism she experienced as a girl, how her community overcame religious tensions by creating inclusive schools, and her optimistic take on the Abayudaya’s relationship to Israel.
Film maker bio - Peter Decherney
Peter Decherney is an award-winning fine art photographer, filmmaker, and author. He holds the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Chair in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute. His photographs of global Jewish communities have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and universities, and his first book of photography, ENDLESS EXODUS: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN ETHIOPIA is forthcoming. His films include the multiple award-winning IS IT BECAUSE I’M A GIRL?, the virtual reality series THE HEART OF PUERTO RICO, and the Discovery+ Original DREAMING OF JERUSALEM. Peter has been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a U.S. State Department Arts Envoy to Myanmar. He is also an award-winning teacher, whose open online course on the history of Hollywood has enrolled more than 80,000 learners.
Ma ŋaye ka Masaala a se ka Wɔmɛti (From God To Man)(2024)
Ma ŋaye ka Masaala a se ka Wɔmɛti (From God To Man) (2024) Synopsis
Sierra Leone| 14 minutes 59 seconds | Director :Lansana Mansaray
On the day that Lansana Mansaray was born, a tree was planted in his name in his father’s Limba village. Now an Emmy and Peabody nominated filmmaker, Mansaray returns to the same village to better understand the essential relationship that Limbas share with the trees that define every aspect of community life.
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Film maker - Lansana Mansaray
Lansana Mansaray (Limba) is a Freetown-based director of photography, musician, and Emmy and Peabody Award nominated filmmaker. His most recent feature documentary, THE NEW BOATS, explores the lives of local fishermen from the Freetown Peninsula whose livelihoods and family legacies are threatened by the growing presence of industrial Asian trawlers that overfish the waters off West Africa.
In 2018, Mansaray co-directed and co-produced SURVIVORS, which explored the complexity of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and the socio-political turmoil that lay in its wake. SURVIVORS became the first West African film to receive an Emmy nomination. Prior to Survivors, Mansaray worked as a cinematographer on DECISIONS; GIRL RISING; THEY ARE WE; and MEET THE AFRICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS, which received a Primetime Emmy.
He is a founder and production manager of WeOwnTV at the Freetown Media Center. A collaborative media project that promotes self-expression and community engagement, WeOwnTV provides local filmmakers with intensive media production training and professional development. Through WeOwnTV, Mansaray has collaborated and worked extensively with international organizations, including British Council, US Embassy Freetown, Generation Africa, UNICEF, Defence for Children International.
In 2020, Mansaray was awarded Admiral of the Humber by the mayor of Hull City (UK) in recognition of outstanding achievement in filmmaking.
Quiet Contemplations (2024)
Quiet Contemplations (2024) Synopsis
QUIET CONTEMPLATIONS (2024) explores the thought processes of juggling an occupation fuelling consumerism whilst desiring to be of more value stewarding and sustaining the land.
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Film maker - Jeremy Owusu-Ansah Boateng
Jeremy Owusu-Ansah Boateng is a director of Ghanaian heritage. His main focus whilst story-telling is to highlight depth and substance as well the subtle spiritual elements of life.
Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze(2024)
Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze(2024) Synopsis
Nigeria | 28 minutes 13 seconds
The troubling past of a young wife creeps back and makes her face a greatest fear.
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Film maker - Mallam Mudi Yahaya
Mallam Mudi Yahaya (*1968 in Kano) is a Nigerian visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, archivist, writer and curator. He lives and works in Lagos.
Becoming Black Lawyers (2021)
Becoming Black Lawyers (2021) Synopsis
United States of America| 25 minutes
When five Black lawyers set out on their journeys to receive a professional legal education, they did not realize that they would have to struggle against additional battles even more challenging than the rigors of learning the law in a hypercompetitive environment. They discover the contradictions of studying in an institution that idealistically represents "justice" for all.
Best short documentary at the Paris International Film Awards, Hollywood South Urban Film Festival, Stockholm City Film Festival, Montreal International Black Film Festival, and
best documentary film at the Huntington Beach Cultural Cinema Showcase
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Film maker bio - Evangeline
Evangeline M. Mitchell is a lawyer, author and publisher, social entrepreneur, non-profit founder, and documentary filmmaker. She is a graduate of HBCU Prairie View A&M University, the University of Iowa College of Law, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She recently earned her Certificate in Documentary Arts from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas, she currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her family.
Henna Stain(2024)
Henna Stain(2024) Synopsis
United States of America| 14 minutes 38 seconds
Magool is a Somali American interpreter, who navigates the two distinct worlds of Somali immigrants and American society. In a series of vignettes, she interacts with different members of Somali society in America. In these vignettes, they leave Magool questioning about the place of women in Somali culture. Amids all, Magool’s mother is mysteriously missing doctor’s appointments.
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Film maker bio - Nimco Yuusuf
Nimco Yuusuf is a MFA in Film-making candidate at Ohio University. She is from Somaliland and inspired by the Somali oral tradition of storytelling and hopes to exhume Somali stories. She especially wants to explore stories about women, resilience and living in the global south. She is interested in combining her love for storytelling and interest in science by highlighting the plight of climate refugees in the horn of Africa.
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