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Göteborg International Film Festival Fund är en unik fond som stödjer filmproduktion och utveckling av filmlivet i utvecklingsländer. Fonden, som finaniseras av SIDA, har i dagsläget stöttat/bidragit med stöd till omkring 100 enskilda filmprojekt och ett stort antal utbildningsprojekt över hela världen.

African Tales

Tanzania

Producer: Imruh Bakari
Production Company: Savannah Films

The Business Trip

Director: Neema Kambona
Neema Kambona directs her second film in the series, The Business Trip. The focus is the unsustainability of the “business” of smuggling in which many operate as though the nation’s wealth is their own.

Body on Fire |Kiwili Wili cha Moto

Director: Maria Sarungi Tsehai
Maria Sarungi Tsehai is directs her second film in the series, Body on Fire. An intense sketch of the numerous issues and effects that makes HIV a human tragedy with repercussions for the future.

The Rat Trap | Mtego wa Panya

Director: Kimela Billa
Kimela Billa, makes his directing debut with The Rat Trap. A depiction of life and education in a boarding school in which the main protagonist encounters the school’s bully and its disciplinary regime. The lessons for survival in the wider society become clear.

Retirement Day | Siku ya Kustaafu

Director: James Gayo
James Gayo makes his directing debut with Retirement Day. A film about the abuse of women within the prison system, where we are given a glimpse of the true nature of the perpetrator.

Mawazo

Director: Nina Mnaya
Nina Mnaya makes her directing debut with Mawazo, literally meaning “inner thoughts”. A film about the secrets, the fears and the desires that sometimes make the realisation of ideals seem impossible. In the end the innocence of a child appears to be all that is left.

Producer Biography

Imruh Bakari is a graduate of the National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield, UK. His company Savannah Films was started in 1994 and established an office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2003. He has been the Festival Director of Zanzibar International Film Festival. As a producer/director his credits include: African Tales - Short Film Series (2005/2008); Blue Notes and Exiled Voices (1991); The Mark of the Hand (1986). He lectures at the University of Winchester, and is currently producing a documentary on Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania.

“African Tales is a showcase of new voices in Tanzania cinema. (…) African Tales is not a thematic series. The films are vignettes of contemporary life in Tanzania. Within each story is interwoven some aspect of ways in which the usual ‘headline’ problems are ordinarily lived.“
Imruh Bakari