ADELINE GREGOIRE

2022 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Freda
Gessica Généus • Haiti • ’89 •
Synopsis:
Freda lives with her family in a little neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their small street parlour is how they make ends meet. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise of violence in Haiti, each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. Freda wants to believe in the future of her country.
AFTT Youth Conversation
In collaboration with The Black Consciousness Festival

Shorts Package | World Africa Day

King David, ’25, Walt Lovelace, Trinidad and Tobago
Call Me Neguinho, ‘9, Sélim Harbi,, Tunisia/Cape Verde
Dona Monica ‘7, Carlos Yuri Ceuninck, Cape Verde
The Audition ’17, Ayomide Adeleke, Nigeria
Ounje Ale ’11, Ozor Uche, Nigeria
Vulnerable ’11, Shea Best, Trinidad and Tobago
NOLLYWATCH
NOLLYWOOD x CARIBBEAN EXCHANGE

A tune away
Stanlee Ohikhuare (Drama / Romance), English, Nigeria, 100 min, 2021
Synopsis:
Anita Da-Silva volunteers to help with caring for kids at a Therapeutic Boarding school for children living with Autism and helps to decipher one of the school's most important cases - Omon - who happens to be the son of the school's founder. Experiencing true care for the first time in a long while, Omon falls in love.
Night of The Kings
Philippe Lacôte, Drama / Fantasy, French/ Dyula,France/ Côte d'Ivoire/ Canada/ Senegal, 93 min, 2021
Synopsis:
A young man is sent to an infamous prison, located in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by inmates. He is chosen to take part in a storytelling ritual just as a violent battle for control rises to the surface. After discovering his fate, Roman begins to narrate the mystical life of a legendary outlaw to make his story last until dawn and give himself any chance of survival.


This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Drama, Lesotho/South Africa/ Italy, 120 min, 2019
Synopsis:
Amongst the pythonic mountains of land-locked Lesotho, an 80 year old widow winds up her earthly affairs, makes arrangements for her burial and prepares to die. But when her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a collective spirit of defiance within her community. In the final dramatic moments of her life, Mantoa’s legend is forged and made eternal.