ZIFF is an international festival, but with a real local flavour. As a representative of the rich cultural heritage of the Dhow countries and East Africa, ZIFF ensures that a substantial part of the program is devoted to East African cinema, including many Swahili language films.
The Mambo Club will be showing Swahili films every second day throughout the festival and Friday 24th June will be a devotedly Swahili & Bongo Film Day at all the festival venues. There will be two East African film World Premieres to look forward to at ZIFF 2011 – Glamour and The Ray of Hope.
Zanzibar’s first high quality Bongo Movie, Glamour tells the story of young Zanzibari girl who dreams of becoming a model and her trials and tribulations as she leaves her conservative Muslim home to peruse her glamorous new career in the big city, Dar Es Salaam.
Starring one of Tanzania’s top models, Eva Issac, and celebrated Tanzania couturier, Mustafa Hassanali, this is the film that will undoubtedly appeal to the masses in a country filled with beauty pageants and where becoming a model is a dream of many.
The Ray of Hope is an engaging film about a young woman who has to fight for her right to work after learning that she has contracted the AIDS virus. The film is produced by Pili Pili Entertainment whose film Nani won Best Film Award in ZIFF 2010 and was selected for Cannes International Pan African Film Festival in France in April 2011.
With films, documentaries and shorts from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, there are 20 East African films showing at ZIFF demonstrating the festival’s commitment to supporting the growing film industry in East Africa and promoting it on an international scale.
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