About the Festival
The African Movie Festival in Manitoba (AM-FM) is an annual spring event held in Winnipeg, Manitoba that showcases the best of African Cinema and that creates a platform for Afro-Canadian dialogue. AM-FM consist of movie screenings, interview sessions with directors/producers/actors, cocktail receptions, and cultural activities including dances, food and entertainment. Full feature movies, shorts and documentaries are screened in French and English from Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and other African countries.
AM-FM is organized by Manitoba African Film Festival Inc., a non-profit organization based in Winnipeg, Canada. The organization and festival is advised by a committee consisting of Dr. Sheila Petty (University of Regina), Dr. Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba), Dr. Onookome Okome (University of Alberta), and Dr. Mbaye Cham (Howard University), Dr. Sarah Buchanan (University of Minnesota, Morris).
Manitoba African Film Festival Inc. was founded in 2017 by Dr. Ben Akoh.
Now Showing
Mama Lova
Director: Jeff Taver (France)
17 mins | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 12:45pm
Baltringe/Freed
Director: Josza Anjembe (France)
20 mins | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 12:45pm
Prisoner and Jailer
Director: Muhannad Lamin (Libya)
15 mins|Arabic with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 12:45 pm
Doubout
Directors: Sarah Malleon and Pierre Le Gall
19 mins | French/Creole with English Subtitles | PG
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 2pm
Popular Vote
Director: Tope Babalola (Canada)
1hr 47mins | English | PG
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 2pm
Ma Copeouse Bien-Aimee/My Beloved Co-wife
Director: Angele Diabang (Senegal)
15 mins | French/Wolof with English Subtitle
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 5:30pm
Bablinga
Director: Fabian Dao (France/Burkina Faso) 14 mins | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 5:30pm
The Lost Café
Director: Kenneth Gyang (Nigeria)
1hr 19 min | English
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 5:30pm
Blaké
Director: Vincent Fontano (France)
23 mins | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 7:45pm
Everything But a Man
Director: Nnegest Likke (USA)
1hr 50min | English
Showing Sept 26, 2020 | 7:45pm
Zombies
Director: Baloji (DRC)
14min | Lingala/French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 1pm
Tithes and Offering
Director: Tony Koros (Kenya)
17 mins | Swahili/English with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 1pm
Journee Noir / Dark Day
Director: Yoro Mbaye (Senegal)
14min | French/Wolof with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 2pm
Le Loup D’Or de Balolé/ Balolé, the Golden Wolf
Director: Chloe Aicha Boro (Burkina Faso)
1hr 15min | French/Moré with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 2pm
Sowing Hope
Director: Kenneth Gyang (Nigeria)
21min | Hausa with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 5pm
Duga, The Scavengers
Directors: Abdoulaye DAO and Eric Lengani (Burkina Faso)
1hr 32min | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 5pm
Un air de Kora
Director: Angele Diabang (Senegal)
12min | French/Wolof with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 7:20pm
Innocent(e)
Director: Frank Lea Malle (Cameroun)
1hr 37min | French with English Subtitles
Showing Sept 27, 2020 | 7:20pm
Racism in Cinema: Representation of Blackness in Films
Seminar
Sept 26, 2020 | 10am
Coming Soon
Everything But a Man
Comedic, dramatic and sexual tensions collide when a man and a woman from two different worlds meet, fall in love, and then discover they have totally opposite beliefs and ideas about life, love and what it takes to be happy.
Testimonials
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Meet our Team
BEN AKOH
Founder/President
Founder/President/Artistic Director and Advisory Committee Chair, Manitoba African Film Festival Inc.
BRENDA AUSTIN-SMITH
Adviser
Brenda Austin-Smith, Associate professor, Department of English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba.
SHEILA PETTY
Adviser
Sheila Petty, Ph.D., Professor, media studies, University of Regina.
MBYE CHAM
Adviser
Mbye Cham, Ph.D., Professor, Department of African Studies and Director of the Center for African Studies, Howard University in Washington, D. C.
ONOOKOME OKOME
Adviser
Onookome Okome, Ph.D., Professor, Arts, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta.
SARAH B. BUCHANAN
Advisor
Sarah B. Buchanan, Ph.D., Associate professor, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA.
NANDOZIE EKEOCHA
Volunteer
Nandozie Ekeocha, M.Sc., Avid film enthusiast and movie critique, writer and director of various screenplays and short films. Volunteer on Social media, marketing and promotion.
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