Tanzania

The countdown to ZIFF 2011 has begun.

This year the festival will present 12 programs including:

Film-  71 films, 46 in competition, 6 World Premieres.

Film Workshops- Documentary (producing, Directing and Line Producing)

The burning of the mabanda belonging to ‘Wabara’ at Pwani Mchangani in Zanzibar has become a big story, treated as a criminal or a political act by Zanzibaris against mainlanders. It may be both, but nobody has asked where the root of the problem may lie in the economic and social sphere.

The Thigithe River in North Mara, Tanzania, meanders through scattered villages and clumps of trees in a vast expanse of land ringed by hills close to the Kenyan border. Nearby, an enormous, sprawling mound of rocks and stones several metres high reaches up from the earth.