Mashariki African Film Festival

Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda, Africa

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Mashariki African Film Festival

Kigali, Kigali City, Rwanda, Africa

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General Information

edition

5th

organizers

Tresor Senga

Festival Director

Ganza Moise

Festival Programmer

Ryumugabe Remy

Festival Programmer

Mwizerwa Moses

Festival Programmer

Mazimpaka Jones Kennedy

Festival Communications manager

Contact details

Kigali , Rwanda KN 4 AV 72st Kigali, Kigali City +250 Rwanda

+250

programmation.maaff@gmail.com

+250789477607 / +25078-885-5556

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About the festival

The Mashariki African Film festival is an annual cultural event that aims at bringing African Films to an African audience.

It consists of films screening and rewarding Rwandan and African Filmmakers and empowering them through workshops and masterclasses offered by local and International specialized professionals. The festival promotes, advocates for and collaborates with other cultural events in different member States of the East African community.

African Category:

- Best African feature fiction

-Best African short

-Best African Documentary

East African Category

-Best East African short

National Category

- Best Rwandan short Fiction

- Best Promising Cinematographer

Iziwacu Films:

- Best Feature Film

- Best Actor

- Best Actress

- Best Original Screenplay

About

The Mashariki African Film festival is an annual cultural event that aims at bringing African Films to an African audience.

It consists of films screening and rewarding Rwandan and African Filmmakers and empowering them through workshops and masterclasses offered by local and International specialized professionals. The festival promotes, advocates for and collaborates with other cultural events in different member States of the East African community.

African Category:

- Best African feature fiction

-Best African short

-Best African Documentary

East African Category

-Best East African short

National Category

- Best Rwandan short Fiction

- Best Promising Cinematographer

Iziwacu Films:

- Best Feature Film

- Best Actor

- Best Actress

- Best Original Screenplay

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

The films submitted should:
 Be directed by an African filmmaker and the story relates to Africa
 Not have been completed before 2018
 Not have been submitted in the previous editions of MAAFF
 Be in English or have English/French Subtitles.

• Films made by Non-African Filmmakers with a plot related to Africa will be considered for the Panorama Section.

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