Submissions may now be sent in for the 6th festival of African film, held in Luxor from March 16th to 22nd 2017.
“Rêveries d’un acteur solitaire” (Algeria) by Hamid Benamra, won a special mention of the jury at the Luxor African Film Festival this year.
Any African film by an African film-maker and produced in 2016, regardless of its length, can compete. There are three sections: feature films, feature-length documentaries and short films.
There is also an international competition dedicated to films about freedom and Human Rights. Film-makers from any continent can participate in this.
The application deadline is December 15th 2016. Click here to submit a film.
The festival’s organiser, the Independent Shabab Foundation, has given us a preview of next year’s programme: Morocco will be the guest of honour, but tributes will also be paid to the Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako (“La vie sur Terre”, “Timbuktu”), to the Egyptian film-maker Yousry Nasrallah (“Femmes du Caire”, “Après la bataille”) and to Egyptian actress Nelly Karim, seen in Mohamed Diab’s “Les femmes du bus 678” and most recently “Clash”.
http://www.luxorafricanfilmfestival.com/fr
