Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

Africa Shafted has been selected to screen at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam that will be held on the 10th-13th of October 2013 in Cinema LantarenVenster.

Screening Urban Transformations in Africa with AFFR and AITP

AFFR Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Africa in the Picture and African Architecture Matters

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Urban Transformations in Africa

Sunday 13 October 15h00:

Urban Transformations in Africa: Africa Shafted – Ingrid Martens, South Africa, 2011 Jonah – Kibwe Tavares, UK / Tanzania, 2013 discussion with Ingrid Martens, Kibwe Tavares, Lesley Lokko and Berend van der Lans.

Sunday 13 October 17h00: Jerusalema – Ralph Ziman, South Africa, 2010

On Thursday 10 October, the 7th edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam will take off in film theatre LantarenVenster in Rotterdam. On Sunday 13 October, AFFR is programming, together with the Amsterdam based Africa in the Picture film festival and African Architecture Matters, a series of films about current developments in African cities: Urban Transformations in Africa.

Africa Shafted is a revealing portrait of the inhabitants of Ponte Tower, the tallest building in the notorious district Hillbrow, Johannesburg. While standing in the elevator, they talk openly about their lives as African immigrants in South Africa. Jonah is an amazing animation film in which two youngsters in Zanzibar inadvertently photograph a gigantic fish, turning their town into a big tourist attraction. Jerusalema is a spectacular film based on the true life story of Lucky Kunene, who took over all the real estate in Hillbrow, Johannesburg in the nineties.