Welcoming Afrika Eye Film Festival back to Arnolfini for a 20th anniversary weekend programme that celebrates the best in African cinema.
Afrika Eye is an annual film and arts festival founded in 2005 in Bristol, England, that has become the biggest celebration of African film in the south west. Running across multiple Bristol venues , the programme includes screenings of features, shorts and documentaries by filmmakers from, or with roots in, Africa along with insightful post screening discussions.
Scroll on for a list of screenings at Arnolfini (please click the film titles for more information and to book tickets):
Saturday 15 November
12:00 – 13:17 Liyana (77 mins) dir Aaron Kopp & Amanda Kopp, Swaziland, 2017
A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers.
14:20 – 16:00 The Man Died (105 mins) dir Awam Amkpa, Nigeria, 2024
The Man Died adapts Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s prison memoir into a powerful story of resistance during Nigeria’s civil war. Imprisoned without trial by military forces, Soyinka endures solitary confinement and torture while his determination to fight tyranny only grows stronger.
17:00 – 18:50 Flame (88 mins) dir Ingrid Sinclair, Zimbabwe, 1996
Set in the 1970s in former Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, the native people are going against their white suppressors. As the war reaches the most distant villages, two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names: Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as simple as they thought…
19:45 – 22:00 Félicité (110 mins) dir: Alain Gomis, France/Senegal), 2017
Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14-year- old son falls victim to an accident.
Sunday 16 November
14:00 – 15:50 The Anchorage of Time (105 mins) dir Sol de Carvahlo, Mozambique, 2024
This beautifully shot “whodunit” tells the story of murder, revenge & solidarity.
16:40 – 18:30 Come Back Africa (95 mins) dir Lionel Rogosin, South Africa, 1959
Lionel Rogosin’s 1959 masterpiece Come Back, Africa stands as one of cinema’s bravest political statements. Traveling secretly to South Africa, he created this powerful quasi-documentary following Zacharia Mgabi’s struggle to find work in apartheid-era Johannesburg.
19:30 – 21:30 Timbuktu (97 mins) dir Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali, 2014
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his family. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills the fisherman who slaughtered his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.