The thirteen commissioned films from IFFR’s Forget Africa-section screen March 15-21 within the African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival in Milan, Italy.
The 20th Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina brings the national premiere of a selection of films from Rotterdam 2010’s Where is Africa programme. The showcase consists of the series provocatively called 'Forget Africa': thirteen new films commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam and shot in Africa by Asian and Western directors working with local directors. The directors were asked to travel in an African country of their choice and make a film based on their first impressions.
Forget Africa consists of films by Filipino filmmaker Khavn De la Cruz (on Cameroon), Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui (on South Africa), US directors Kimi Takesue (on Uganda), Deborah Stratman (on Mali) and Kevin Jerome Everson (on Angola), Indian-American filmmaker Pia Sawhney (on Rwanda), German director Uli Schüppel and Singaporean artist Sherman Ong (on Tanzania), Beijing-resident Filipino director Joanna Arong Vasquez and Thai artist/director Jakrawal Nilthamrong (on Zambia), Indonesian filmmaker Edwin (on Kenya) and Austrian artist Ella Raidel (on Mozambique).