12/11/2025
Bristol is to host the 20th Anniversary Afrika Eye Film Festival between 14th and 16th November. Annie Menter, Festival Director, said
"Welcome to our 20th Anniversary Celebration weekend! It’s 2025 and Afrika Eye is celebrating 20 years of bringing films from Africa and the diaspora to the southwest. The task of selecting eight films from the 200 or so we’ve screened in our lifetime was a huge challenge. We hope that there’ll be one or two that you won’t be able to resist .
This is a weekend that you really won’t want to miss out on, with films from Mali, Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo and Swaziland to name but a few. Please join us as we sing the praises of those directors who have shone a light into every corner of the continent with keen eyes, and sensitivity to the dramas, the creativity, the politics and the day to day that is Afrika."
Most of the screenings will take place at the Arnolfini Arts Centre on Bristol's harbourside and a full list of the programme is available is at : https://www.afrikaeye.org.uk/. One of the films shown as part of the festival is the hard hitting Timbuktu, which shows life near the legendary medieval city now run by religious fundamentalists. Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his family. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills the fisherman who slaughtered his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
