Festival of Festivals
In this innovative program we invite festi- vals, film bodies and cultural representa- tives from around the world to curate a 3-hour package of film highlights that best demonstrates the cinema of their country. After the screening they get 45 minutes to talk to the audience and the press about their organisation, followed by a networking event.
Later this year ZIFF will also be presenting a retrospective package of films from ZIFF 2010 at the Potsdam Film Museum in Germany in December.
Africa in the Picture (Netherlands)
What started in 1987 as an African Cinema Retrospective has evolved into Europe’s big- gest African film festival, scouring film festi- vals throughout the world for the best films from Africa and the African diaspora.
Maisha Film Lab (Uganda)
Maisha is a filmmaker’s laboratory and training program dedicated to the support and development of visionary filmmakers in East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania). Founded by acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, Maisha aims to foster local voices from these regions. Our motto is “if we don’t tell our stories, no one else will.”
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
The trinidad+tobago film festival seeks to highlight excellence in filmmaking through the exhibition of films made in the Caribbean and by international filmmakers whose films are relevant to a Caribbean audience.
Mexican Embassy
Mexico has been a major contributor to World Cinema since the early 1900s. In recent times, it has been making its mark on the international scene with films such as Amores Perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Iran Embassy
Iran has a flourishing film industry with a long and distinguished history. Many popular commercial films are made every year for Iranian audiences and beyond - and Iranian art films are acclaimed all over the world.
The Festival Exchange
ZIFF joins the first ever festival exchange programme fostered and sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation, as it welcomes the Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival to Zanzibar, together with its director Bruce Paddington. In its efforts at enhancing artistic and humane expressions of natural life habits through the arts, the Foundation sees both festivals as spaces of spirituality despite their diverse geographical, content and thematic focuses. It therefore sees this inaugural festival exchange as a prototype of veritable sculptures of socialisation as festi- vals have grown to become both consoling spaces of narratives of tormented hearts and joyful vistas of cultural futures.
This year, ZIFF will screen over 15 hours of Caribbean film at the Old Fort Amphitheatre, Africa House and the House of Wonders, as well as later screenings in Bagamoyo and Dar Es Salaam. Later in the year, ZIFF will also be presenting a retrospective package of films from ZIFF 2010.