An evening of African films and object handling at Amgueddfa Cymru

Watch-Africa is Wales’ Annual African Film Festival celebrating the best of African cinema. Launched in 2013, the festival provides a platform for African films, art and culture in Wales. It brings a wide-range of films covering areas across the continent, as well as engaging and interactive activities and events related to the festival. It provides a platform for works by African, African diasporas as well as Welsh and international directors and artists which bring fresh perspectives on Africa to its economic, social, political and cultural life.

Watch-Africa: Wales' African Film Festival

Documentary film screening along with short films and filmmaker panel discussion

National Museum Cardiff (The Event will be taking Place at the Reardon Smooth Lecture Theatre. You can find the entrance on Park place towards the rear end of National Museum Cardiff)

<h2>In collaboration with <a href="https://museum.wales/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">National Museum Wales/Amgueddfa Cymru</a> and supported by <a href="https://www.britishcouncil.org/east-africa-arts" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">British Council East Africa</a>  - Part of <a href="https://www.watch-africa.co.uk/about-2" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Filamu Zetu Project!</a></h2><h3><em>Food/Drinks/ Refreshments will be available on sale!</em></h3><p>As part of Remembrance Day, Watch-Africa Film Festival and Amgueddfa Cymru are delighted to host an evening of African films covering heritage, identity and remembrance. We will screen 2 features and 1 short fim which will include Question and Answers with filmmakers. Curators at Amgueddfa Cymru do a live show and tell of Museum objects.</p><p>Join us for a chance to see documentary screening of, If Objects Could Speak, by Saitabo Kaiyare and Elena Schilling, building on conversation around colonial belongings, identity and fear. They are filmmakers who embark on a journey to find and learn the roots and background of pieces found in European museums, many of which have lost its story. </p><p>We will be showing short films by Welsh and Cameroonian artists who will share with us thoughts on issues of identity, heritage and what it feels to be Deep Within Our Skin. And the opportunity of a show and tell of a collection selected by Jessica Dunrod for attendees to view and build dialogue around</p><p>To commemorate unheard stories about WW1 &amp; 2, we will screen a documentary called ‘A Place Called Wahala’ by Jurgen Ellinghaus Ellinghaus. The film opens one of the many unknown chapters of Afro-European past and colonial history. There is an overlap of pictures from present-day life and testimonies more than a hundred years old, from a time when European colonial expansion was at its peak. </p><p>To attend please buy your ticket here - note, there are limited tickets so purchase before the event to avoid disappointment.</p><p>If you have any questions regarding the festival please contact: Creative Producer, Rehana.jaffer@watch-africa.co.uk or our Founder, Fadhili.maghiya@watch-africa.co.uk </p><h3>About Filamu Zetu/Ein Ffilmiau/Our Stories</h3><p>Watch-Africa CIC is proud to partner with Docubox - An East African Documentary Film Fund, whose mission is to enable talented, driven, and focused East African filmmakers, with important and unique stories to tell, to produce high impact independent documentary films that unearth new realities about worlds, identities, and people for audiences in East Africa and around the world. The partnership is to conduct an immersive and inclusive project that involves talented independent filmmakers in a pilot project in both regions of East Africa and Wales through masterclasses, Q&A sessions with filmmakers and film screenings.</p>