Siya and Rachel Kolisi’s film to open the Africa Rising International Film Festival

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will be one of 30 films to screen at the festival, including films from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya.We seek to package African films for export to the global stage while being at the centre of driving change and being a motivating anchor that unearths authentic African stories. The films selected for this year’s edition celebrate our collective African-ness but in so doing are not tone-deaf to issues faced by everyday people on the continent,” said festival chair Lala Tuku.

Festival director, Ayanda Sithebe said the inclusion of the film was fitting as the festival was aimed at shining a light on important social issues. I am Samuel , shot in Kenya over 5 years. The film made international headlines when it was banned in Kenya by the country'sis an intimate portrait of a Kenyan man balancing pressures of family loyalty, love, and safety and questioning the concept of conflicting identities,” said Tuku.

“A hundred years from now, ARIFF wants to make sure that we’ll be able to look back at a glorious archive of impactful African stories told by storytellers with an authentically African point of view.”

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