“Brazil African Film Festival returns to movie theaters in grand style to celebrate Brazil’s biggest African film festival”, says the cultural producer Ana Camila, who is the Festival’s director and co-curator of feature-length films alongside Beatriz Leal Riesco. “The schedule broadens its geographical reach from our São Paulo headquarters to Curitiba, occupying new spaces and bringing more international guests”, she adds. 

The Festival in Curitiba also includes three short films schedules: a selection of recent titles from various African countries, curated by Kariny Martins and Bea Gerolin from Cartografia Filmes; a session of Angolan short films produced during the last two years of the pandemic, with curatorship of the audiovisual producer Generation 80; and a collection of short films produced by young filmmakers in a documentary training project supervised by Cameroonian Jean-Marie Teno.

The event also promotes in Curitiba the workshop “Eu, Você, Nós: Contando histórias através de nossos corpos, alma e voz” (I, You, We: telling stories through our bodies, soul and voice”), led by Maimouna Jallow. The free workshop takes place from July 8th to 10th. 15 scholarships will be offered to Paraná’s countryside and coast residents, with priority for black and indigenous people. On Saturday (July 9th), Aïssa Maiga will participate in the session “Reflexões sobre a representação da mulher negra no audiovisual” ("Considerations on black women's representation on screen”). On Sunday, we promote a gathering of our international guests, Aïssa Maiga, Jenna Bass, Babalwa Baartman, Ema Edosio, and Maimouna Jallow, in a roundtable to discuss “Produção Independente no contexto Africano” (Independent production in the African context).