II Muestra de Cine Casa África

This Second Casa África Film Festival aims to promote and strengthen the knowledge of African contemporary works, not only on an aesthetic and content level, but also in its analytical dimension, in order make audiences aware of African cultural diversity. We aim to break any simplification or stereotype about Africa which might still be in place in our collective imagination, in order to understand the role of the seventh art and of African audio-visual productions both in Africa today and in the globalized world in which we live.

The Festival will take place in the CICCA of Gran Canarias’s capital and will have free admission, with a programme that includes shorts, feature films and documentaries.

The main objective of this project is to further strengthen film as an educational tool which can raise awareness about relevant social issues in Africa and in Spain. Therefore, new to this year’s Film Festival will be an educational section which will take place each morning and offer educational sessions for schools through screenings of appropriate films and lively discussions focused on the values ​​of cultural diversity, cooperation and solidarity.

If you like Africa and you like film, don’t miss this opportunity to discover and analyze the latest films made in Africa. A selection of bold and innovative titles that tell their own political, social, human, romantic, ironic or funny stories. They make up a kaleidoscope of films from all corners of the continent, told by African directors from countries including South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Lesotho and Mauritius.

The programme of screenings and meetings is as follows: (click on the links to download and view)

MONDAY 14

  • 7:30pm Lazy Susan, by Stephen Abbott (Fiction/ South Africa / 2015/ 10'/ Colour/ English-Xhosa / Spanish subtitles)
  • 7:45pm The endless river, by Oliver Hermanus (Fiction / South Africa-France / 2015/ 110'/ Colour/ English/ Spanish subtitles)

TUESDAY 15 - Day dedicated to Equatorial Guinea

  • 7:30pm Aricó caliente, by Raimundo Bernabé Nnandong (Fiction/ Equatorial Guinea/ 2015/ 28'/ Colour/ Fang-Spanish/ Spanish subtitles)
  • 8pm El secreto del bosque (“The secret of the forest”), by Antonio Grunfeld Rius (Documentary/ Spain-Equatorial Guinea / 2015/ 45'/ Colour/ Spanish)
  • Discussion at the end of the screenings

WEDNESDAY 16

  • 10am-1pm - Secondary schools. Theme: Politics/ Social mobilization
    • The revolution won’t be televised, by Rama Thiaw (Documentary / Senegal/ 2016/ 110'/ Colour / Wolof-French / Spanish subtitles)
    • Discussion led by Keybis Keba Danso*
  • 7:30pm Xaar Yallah, by Mbaye Fall (Fiction/ Senegal/ 2015/ 15'/ Colour/ Wolof/ Spanish subtitles)
  • 7:45pm Farafin Ko, une cour entre deux mondes, by Chloé-Aicha Boro and Vincent Schmitt (Documentary/ Burkina Faso-France / 2014/ 90'/ Colour/ Bambara/ Spanish subtitles)
  • Discussion at the end of the screenings

THURSDAY 17 - Day dedicated to Kenya

  • 7:30pm Nairobi half life by David Tosh Gitonga (Fiction/ Kenya/ 2012/96'/ Colour/ Swahili / Spanish subtitles)
  • 9:15pm Stories of Our Lives, by Jim Chuchu (Fiction/ Kenya-South Africa/ 2014/ 60'/ Black and white / Swahili/ Spanish subtitles)
  • Discussion at the end of the screenings

Friday 18

  • 10am-12pm- Secondary schools. Theme: Xenophobia / Racial Stereotypes
    • Trop noire pour être française? by Isabelle Boni-Claverie (Documentary/ France/ 2013/ 52'/ Colour and b & w / French/ Spanish subtitles in collaboration with Casa África)
    • Discussion led by Keybis Keba Danso*
  • 7pm Coming of age, by Teboho Edkins (Docudrama/ Lesotho-Germany/ 2015/ 63'/ Colour/ Sesotho/ Spanish subtitles)
  • 8:15pm Lonbraz Kann, by David Constantin (Fiction/ Mauritius-France-Mozambique-Reunion Island / 2014/ 88'/ Colour/ Mauritian Creole/ Spanish subtitles)
  • Discussion at the end of the screenings
  • Closure of the Festival

*Keybis Keba Danso [1984, Senegal]

Multidisciplinary artist, Diploma in Film and Cultural Management from the Media Centre school in Dakar, Senegal. He is president and founding partner of the Youth Association AJSS (Youth Association for Awareness and Solidarity) in Dakar and at the European level is the founder of the APCS Association (Association for the Promotion of Senegalese Cinema) in Dakar.

For more information (film trailer, map and directions, etc) visit the section of the website dedicated to the Second Casa África Film Festival

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Jornada de lanzamiento del proyecto Compass
El 16 de mayo de 2025 en Casa África
Club de Lectura Antonio Lozano de Casa África-Mayo2025
El martes 13 de mayo de 2025, a las 17:00h, en Casa África
África Vive 2025
From 13 to 30 May 2025
Presentación del juego «Kabila»
El 13 de mayo a las 18h en Casa África
Presentación del libro «Memorias del río Níger. El sueño de Tombuctú», de Irene López de Castro
El 29 de abril de 2025 a las 19h en el Auditorio Nelson Mandela de Casa África
Presentación del nuevo libro de B. Boris Diop
El 30 de abril a las 19h en Casa África
Club de Lectura Antonio Lozano de Casa África-Abril2025
El lunes 21 de abril de 2025, a las 17:00h, en Casa África
Presentación en Casa Árabe del libro «África, racismo y colonialismo»
22 de abril de 2025, a las 19h, en Casa Árabe Córdoba
Curso de iniciación al wolof. 5ª edición
Inscripción al curso: 22-24abr2025
SIEL 2025
Del 17 al 27 de abril en Rabat, Marruecos
De interés
Hasta el 20 de abril
Cuentos en Red 2025
Del 6 al 23 de abril
Fiesta Nacional de Senegal en Casa África
Sábado, 5 de abril de 2025 en Casa África
Conversas macaronésicas
6 y 9 de abril de 2025 en Canarias