The 4th SWIFF has in store over 135 powerfully engaging, diverse feature, documentary and short films from India, Korea and a number of countries around the world

Screening on the 23rd of July 2011

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IMANI won the OIF (Organisation internationale de la francophonie) prize for the best full-length film at the prestigious African Film festival in Montréal,  Canada called “Vues D’Afrigue” that ran in April and May 2011.

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Way to go IMANI team!

1) “Chips and Liver Girls” – Commissioned by The Danish Film Institute ( with Co-Director Boris Bertram)

2) FIRE FLY – PART OF RAIDING AFRICA – Commissioned by The Rotterdam International Film Festival

SYNOPSIS - A nine-year old boy is told a magical fairytail by his twelve-year old sister setting him on a voyage of discovery and enlightenment. His sister wants to teach him about life through challenges. He becomes the protagonist in his own fairy tail journey searching out “wise words” from “wise people” in his small town of SONG ZHUANG outside Beijing.

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As one of 17 films selected for the “International Digital Feature Film’s Competition” the judges awarded IMANI the SILVER AWARD. 

“Imani” vibrantly captures three vignettes of life in modern day Uganda: A child soldier returning to the parents who could not protect him, a woman fighting to get her wrongly accused sister out of jail, and a youth dance troop leader struggling to simply get through a hometown performance. 

Presiding over the winning decision is Bassek Ba Kobhio (director, Cameroon), George Papalios (president, Greek Film Center), Agnes Kocsis (director, Hungary), Celina Jaitley (actress, India), Najwa Najar (writer/director, Palestine), Nelly Karim (actress, Egypt) and Saadet Isil Aksoy (actress, Turkey). 

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THE CRITIC’S AWARD FOR THE BEST AFRICAN FEATURE FILM was awarded to
“IMANI”,  (UGANDA 2010), for “the capability of presenting the complicated historical

and social  realities of a nation in a limited time and undertaking such varying

subject matters as attempting to settle the past, corruption and the role of women in

society.”. THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED BY THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF

“AFRYKAMERA” PRZEMEK STEPHEN. AND AS IT OFTEN IS AT FESTIVALS

JAN TOPOLSKI – film critic, cooperates with monthly “Kino” and
with the New Horizons Association;

ANNA KILIAN – film critic, journalist of “Zycia Warszawy” and “Rzeczpospolita”;

BARTOSZ KURZYCA – doctorate at African Studies at the Warsaw University,

Jury: Jan Topolski – film critics working with the “Cinema” and the Association “New Horizons”, Anna Kilian – film critic, journalist, “Zycie Warszawy” and “Rzeczpospolita” Bart reek – PhD student at Warsaw University afrykanistyki; decided that the Critics Award for best feature film is awarded to ”Imani,” directed by Caroline Kama (Uganda, 2010). In support of the jury wrote: “the ability to present complex realities of the historical, social country in the condensed time being taken to attempt to settle the past and dealt with, inter alia, describing the problems of the country and women in society.”

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