13° Espejos y Espejismos - Muestra de Cine Africano en Argentina (13)

Festival start: 16 November 2020      Festival end: 26 November 2020

Starting in 2007 Observatorio Sur undertook the “Mirrors and Mirages” film series on and from the African continent. In each edition we have selected films based on different subjects to show and debate on history and actuality in the African world.

No prizes.

Starting in 2007 Observatorio Sur undertook the “Mirrors and Mirages” film series on and from the African continent. In each edition we have selected films based on different subjects to show and debate on history and actuality in the African world. During these continuing 12 years we have scheduled films of African directors together with films from other countries which portray a particular view on African realities.

In this 13st edition we call on independent film directors and video artists (long, medium and short films) to send material that would contribute to show new depictions on Africa. The received material will be included in our Film Archive and apply for the selection for the 13st Edition of “Mirrors and Mirages” Film Series that will take place on XXX

We are receiving: independent films, documentaries, video art, experimental-animation films, from Africa and on Africa and its peoples.


Thematic areas (non-exclusive):

African cultures - music, arts, performatic arts, literature

Afro origins: African artists in other continents - African perspectives of the West.

Social movements - Cultural expressions as resistance expressions

Feminisms - sexual diversity - reproductive rights

Colonization and decolonization - Cultures and Otherness

Spirituality - religions - cosmovisions - myths - ceremonies - traditions - popular festivities

Communitary media - Education - Alternative uses of technologies