Africa-Press – Angola. African cinema is being screened, since this Monday (14), in the city of Florence, in Italy, with the holding of the 8th edition of the Kibaka Film Festival, an initiative created to give greater projection to productions and directors from the continent. cradle.
This year, the festival, an initiative of the Angolan association Njinga Mbande and Matias Mesquita, will seek to show the current reality of Afro-descendants, many still victims of racism and discrimination.
In this year’s program, the organization will work with students from the Instituto Médio Galileu Galilei, in Florence, and has the support of Bella Presenza – Progetto con i Bambini, the Angolan embassy in Italy, the Museum and Institute of Prehistory and the Arcobaleno Project Association.
With a total of 15 short films to be shown, the festival is part of the Black History Month Florence 2022 program, which hails February as Black History Month. In a press release, Matias Mesquita states that, unlike last year, when the edition was completely online, in this one, without the streaming service, the focus is on the return of the public to the cinemas. , a master class given by Afro-descendant director and producer Fred Kuwornu, born in Italy and residing in New York”, he explained.
The Angolan cultural activist, Matias Mesquita, also informed that the project will help to contribute to the Youth Educational Poverty Contrast Fund, in which the Njinga Mbande Association is a partner. “We have a section for children and we are very happy with the involvement of some young Italians, an example of how cultural barriers can be broken to support the local community”, he said.
During some days of the festival, he clarified, workshops will be held of short films about Afro-descendants and migration.
On the opening day of the festival, the highlight was a meeting between students from Instituto Medio Galileu Galilei and Afro-descendant filmmakers Cecilia Garding and Kassim Yassin. The day was also marked with the screening of the films “Kimpa Vita: The Mother of the African Revolution”, by Congolese-Angolan director Ne Kunda Nlaba, and “Children Children’s”, by the English Rikki Beadle-Blair and Tritan Fyn – Aieduenu.
Tusday, the highlights were the films “Jamaica & Tamarindo”, “Lipstick” and “Soul River and Black Memories”.
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