Kenyan short film competing at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in Germany

May 1st was a first for William Owusu, the promising young film director from Kenya who recently attended the Berlinale Film Talent Campus in Berlin. His entry, "The Epilogue", 15 minutes long, has been chosen as the only African film featuring at one of the most renowned short film festivals, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. "The Epilogue" joins a host of innovative and original short films which have a tradition in Oberhausen. Most films entered there come from the numerous film academies like Munich, Berlin, Potsdam, Ludwigsburg and other art and media schools in Germany and the rest of the world. Today, about 800 short films are made in Germany alone. Others films have come from as far as Asia and the Americas.