ZIFF is East Africa's largest film, music and arts festival,
bringing new talents together from all over the world for a Zanzibar Tamasha!

Theme and dates for ZIFF 2017: FINDING JOY, July 8th - 16th 2017.

Festival Director: Fabrizio Colombo.

ZIFF 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION

LONG FEATURES
- BLACK BELGIAN, de JEAN LUC HABYARIMANA
Rwanda
- CALL ME THIEF
DAVID MAX BROWN
South Africa
- ESCAPE
AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA
- GATE KEEPER
Tanzania
- GENGE
Tanzania
- HADITHI ZA KUMEKUCHA: TUNU
JORDAN RIBER
USA/Tanzania
- HALF TICKET
G. V. PRAKASH KUMAR
India
- HOME COMING
SEKO SHAMTE Tanzania
- JOE NJAGU
United Kingdom/ ZIMBABWE
- JUST NOT MARRIED
UDUAK-OBONG PATRICK
Nigeria
- KATI KATI
MBITHI MASY
Kenya
- KATUTURA
FLORIAN SCHOTT
Namibia
- KEEPING PROMISES
Tanzania
- KITAA
Tanzania
- KIUMENI
NICHOLAS MARWA
Tanzania
- KONY - ORDER FROM ABOVE
AYENY T. STEVE
Uganda
- KIONGOZI
Tanzani
- NGO
ARNOLD AGANZE
Uganda
- PILI
LEANNE WELHAM
UK
- MAWLANA
MAGDY AHMED ALI
Egypt
- RABIDITY
AMIR AHMAD ANSARI
Iran
- ROAD TO SUNRISE
CHARLES SHEMU JOYAH
Malawi
- SHAB
ONIR
India
- STOLEN SOULS
Tanzania
- THE CURSED ONES
NANA OBIRI-YEBOAH, MAXIMILIAN CLAUSSEN
UK / GHANA
- THE INNER STRUGGLE
MAN AHLIN
DENMARK
- THE LUCKY SPECIALS
REA RANGAKA
South Africa
- THE TRAIN OF SALT AND SUGAR
LICINIO AZEVEDO
Mozambique
- T-JUNCTION
AMIL SHIVJI
Tanzania
- USIKU WA KIZA
Tanzania
- VAYA
AKIN OMOTOSO
South Africa
- WALLAY
BERNIE GOLDBLAT
Burkina Faso / Swiss
- WOVEN
SALOME MULUGETA, NAGWA IBRAHIM
Ethiopia
- WULU
DAOUDA COULIBALY
Mali

SHORT FILMS
- #ALAKSHA, by PUSHPAK JAIN, India
- A MAN'S STORY, by FERNANDO ARRIOJA, Canada
- AFRO PUNK GIRL, by ANNETTA LAUFER, South Africa
- AZAAD, by RAHUL V. CHITTELLA, India
- BASTIEN, by WELKET BUNGUÉ, Brazil
- BINTI ZANZIBAR, by BARKE ALI MUHSIN, Tanzania
- BLACK HEAD COW, by ELIZABETH NICHOLS, Tanzania/Uk
- BODA BODA, by JOSEPH KITSHA, Uganda
- CHASE, by OTUTU BABAJIDE, Nigeria
- CHEUSI DAWA, by TOM JOHNS, Tanzania
- CREAM, by PALESA LEBONA, South Africa
- DAYMANE TOURS, by PEPIANG TOUFDY, Chad
- DEAR MR. SHAKESPEARE, by SHOLA AMOO, UK
- ELEVEN PERCENT, by MAKELA PUPULU, RDC/South Africa
- FREE BASICS, by AMITABH AURORA, India
- GERRETA, by MANTEGAFTOT SILESHI SIYOUM, Ethiopia
- GIVE A MAN A MASK AND HE WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH, by ERIC GAUSS, ODETTE VAN RENSBURG, USA/ ZIMBABWE
- HAIR THAT MOVES, by YOLANDA MOGATUSI, South Africa
- HARTOM, by ARKUS, United Arab Emirates
- HOFU, Tanzania
- HOODED, by NJOKI MBUTHIA, Kenya
- IBANGA RY'UMUNEZERO (THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS), by MUTIGANDA WA NKUNDA, Rwanda
- INDULGE ME, by IAN KITHINJI, Kenya
- IT WORKS, by MUNEZERO EMMANUEL, Rwanda
- JESHI LA MASHUJAA, Tanzania
- KALEIDOSCOPE, by MARTIN GITHINJI, Kenya
- KEEPING THE BEAT, by GERAINT HILL, United Kingdom
- KIJANA WA ZANZIBAR, by KHAMIS RASHID, Tanzania
- KIPAWA, by ELIZABETH HANSEN, United States
- KOKOTA: THE ISLET OF HOPE, by CRAIG NORRIS, Canada
- LODGERS, by KENI OGUNLOLA, Nigeria
- M-001, by FRANCK A. ONOUVIET, Gabon
- MAMAN(S), by MAÏMOUNA DOUCOURÉ, France
- MARIA, by KAMAU WANDUNGU, Kenya
- MR.ABILITY, by OKUYO JOEL ATIKU PRYNCE, Uganda
- NECTAR, by MIREMBE DOREEN, Uganda
- NUBUKE, by BISMARK ARYEE, Ghana
- PURPOSE, by VICTOR OKOYE, Nigeria
- SANTA KLAUS DARK SIDE, by LAURENT PANTALÉON, Reunion Island
- SAUTI YA KUNESA, by EDGAR L.L. NGELELA, Tanzania
- SIX TO SIX, by MIA CILLIERS, South Africa
- THE FLESH OF THE HISTORY, by FABIENNE KANOR, USA
- THE GOLDFISH WHO SWAM OUT OF THE FISHBOWL, by TATHAGATA GHOSH, India
- THE HANGMAN, by DUMISANI MVUMVU, South Africa
- THE PHOTOGRAPH, by RAHUL KUMAR SIGNH, Tanzania
- THE VIRGIN VEGAN, by REA MOETI, South Africa
- VINDICTE, by ANGE-RÉGIS HOUNKPATIN, France
- VOICE FROM 10,000 MILES, by OLUWADAMILOLA OSHODI, Australia
- WATU WOTE - ALL OF US, by KATJA BENRATH, by Kenya
- YAA, by ESI YAMOAH, Ghana
- YAADIKOONE, by MARC PICAVEZ, France

DOCUMENTARIES
- ARTS OF THE MONSOON, by DODGE BILLINGSLEY, United States
- BLAXPLOITALIAN, by FRED KOWORNU, Italy
- BLOCK 5, by MOLATELO MAINETJE, South Africa
- CASAMANCE: THE SOUNDTRACK OF A JOURNEY, by PALOMA ZAPATA, Spain
- GILBERTE'S WORLD, by DAVID MASTERWILLE, Ghana
- GUANGZHOU DREAM FACTORY, by CHRISTIANE BADGLEY, United States
- ISHYAKA, THE WILL TO LIVE, by Joseph Bitamba, Rwanda
- JUST LIKE YOU - KAMA WEWE, by Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe, Tanzania
- KEEPERS OF THE GAME, by JUDD EHRLICH, United States
- MALI BLUES, by LUTZ GREGOR, Germany
- MAMAN COLONELLE, by DIEUDO HAMADI, RDCongo
- NAIJA BETA, by ARTHUR MUSAH, United States
- NOMA, by PABLO PINEDO
Spain
- PEOPLE AT SEA, by DELPHINE ITAMBI, Cameroon
- SACRED WATERS, by OLIVIER JOURDAIN, Belgium
- SAMIRA, by NINO TROPIANO, Italy / Zanzibar
- SINEMA UJAMAA - SYMPHORIAN BELLEGHE, by AYLIN BASARAN, Tanzania
- SOMEBODY CLAP FOR ME, by LUCIANA CECCATTO FARAH, Brazil
- SON OF SIMBAD: THE CALL OF ZANZIBAR, by Friedrich Kluetsch, Germany
- THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN, by JULIA DAHR, UK
- THE AFRICAN WHO WANTED TO FLY, by SAMANTHA BIFFOT, Gabon
- THE IVORY GAME, by Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani, USA
- THE LONGEST RACE, by JAVIER TRIANA & RUBÉN SAN BRUNO, Spain
- THE TWO FACES OF A BAMILEKE WOMAN, by ROSINE MBAKAM, Cameroon
- TOMORROW LAND, by SARVNAZ ALAMBEIGI, Iran
- TROUPES OF WAR, by DAVISON MUDZINGWA, South Africa
- UBISOS' HANDPRINT, by RRATSHEKO MASHILO NTHITE, South Africa
- UHURU, by TOM GENTLE, United Kingdom
- UPRIZE!, by SIFISO KHANYILE, South Africa
- WHITE POTION, by ASH MSWAKI, Tanzania
- WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME, by NICK BROOMFIELD, UK
- WINNIE, by PASCALE LAMCHE, South Africa
- WORKERS CUP, by ADAM SOBEL, UK


ANIMATION
- TIS, by CHLOË LESUEUR, France
- RUMBO, by AUGUSTO GOICOECHEA, Uruguay
- DENT DE LLEÓ, by JORGE BELLVER, Spain
- A FUGA, by DOUGLAS ALVES FERREIRA, Brazil
- ROGER, by SONIA CENDÓN QUIREZA / ARNAU GÒDIA MONTESINOS / INGRID MASARNAU AMORÓS / MARTÍ MONTAÑOLA VILET, Spain
- MTOTO UMLEAVYO NDIVYO AKUAVYO, Tanzania
- EDEM (SAVED ME), by ZENOCK G. AMPONSAH, Ghana
- TUNU NA KITO, Tanzania
- MKWAVINYIKA
Tanzania