32 Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 2022: Featuring Women Filmmakers Week

 

32th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films

A Celebration of Black History Month
At Portland Community College
4 February - 5 March 2022

The Cascade Festival of African Films is held in Portland, Oregon USA. The closing week of the festival features Women Filmmakers Week, which includes retrospectives, tributes and recently released short and feature films:

The Cascade Festival of African Films shows us Africa through the eyes of Africans, rather than a vision of Africa packaged for Western viewers. The films celebrate Africa’s achievements, expose its failures, and reveal possibilities for a hopeful future. Although the films cannot represent an entire continent, we hope to encourage American viewers to become interested in and study African cultures. Text and image source: Cascade Festival of African Films. Festival poster by Jordin Garcia Portillo

 

The 2020 lineup of films with hyperlinks to Women Filmmakers Week selections

on the African Women in Cinema Blog

 

Suzannah Mirghani: Al-Sit (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Sudan
March 5

Nantenaina Lova: Aza Kivy/ Morning Star
Madagascar
February 17

Amy Jephta: Barakat (2020)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
South Africa
March 4

Françoise Ellong: Buried (2020)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Cameroon
March 5

Fehinti Balogun: Can I Live? (2021)

Nigeria
February 16

Nabil Ayouch: Casablanca Beats (2021)

Morocco
February 5

Amir Ramses: Curfew (2021)
Egypt
February 26

Ephraim Asili: Diaspora Suite and Other Short Films (2010-17)

Diaspora
February 12

AJ Wone: Diatribe: From the Village to the Streets (2020)
USA
February 4

Abdoulaye Dao, Hervé Eric Lengani: Duga / The Scavengers (2019)
Burkina Faso
February 19

Jessica Beshir: Faya Dayi (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Ethiopia
March 3

Moussa Diop, Thomas Grand: Golden Fish, African Fish (2018)
Senegal
February 17

Joao Ribeiro: Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret (2020)
Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal
February 26

Philippe Lacôte: La Nuit Des Rois / Night of the Kings (2020)
Cote d'Ivoire
February 19

Mahamet Saleh Haroun: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021)
Chad
February 18

Amleset Muchie: Min Alesh? (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Ethiopia
March 5

Michel K. Zongo: No Gold for Kalsaka (2019)
Burkina Faso
February 24

Mary-Noël Niba: Partir? (2019)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Cameroon
February 10

Maimouna Jallow: Tales of the Accidental City (2021)
See post on African Women in Cinema Blog
Kenya
March 5

Ephraim Asili: The Inheritance (2020)
USA
February 12

Shola Amoo: The Last Tree (2019)
Nigeria, UK
February 11

Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri: This is My Desire / Eyimofe (2020)
Nigeria
February 5

Amil Shivji: Tug of War (2021)
Tanzania
February 25

Elija Hasan: Who We Carry (2021)
USA
February 4

 

New York African Film Festival 2021: "Min Alesh?" by Amleset Muchie

New York African Film Festival 2021
 

Amleset Muchie
Min Alesh?
Ethiopia
2019 - Fiction - 84mins

Set in Merkato, a sprawling, open-air market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Min Alesh? tells the inspiring story of 21-year-old Selam, whose perseverance transforms her life for the better. Having grown up amid poverty and hardships, Selam is determined to change her and her family’s circumstances through her passion for running. An international race offers her a chance to achieve her dream.

More information:
https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/min-alesh/

Ethiopian filmmaker and actress Amleset Muchie joins film producer Selma Idris in a discussion about Amleset's film, "Min Alesh?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuNmmtgwYQ