African Film Podcasts

The documentary film Body and Soul set in Maputo, Mozambique, was screened at the Film Africa 2011 film festival in London, where it provoked a lively debate amongst audience members about several issues including the representation of disability and the ethics of filmmaking. In this podcast, Estrella Sendra and Caitlin Pearson discuss aspects of the film, and include sections of an interview conducted at the festival with the filmmaker Matthieu Bron.

In this podcast, Lindiwe Dovey - Senior Lecturer in African Film at SOAS - interviews the Congolese filmmaker Djo Tunda Wa Munga, writer and director of the multi-award-winning film VIVA RIVA!, currently screening in cinemas across the UK.

The Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF) is the oldest annual African film festival in the UK, and a society of the University of Cambridge. It was initiated in May 2002 by a small group of graduate students at the University of Cambridge as a way of screening the best contemporary African films, increasing knowledge and awareness of African and black culture in the UK. In this podcast, Dr Lindiwe Dovey, Lecturer in African Film at SOAS, gives a detailed description of the festival and previews some of the most important films showing in the 2009 edition.

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