Afrodisruptive Imaginaries

For films that break narrative, formal, or stylistic conventions. This section showcases experimental, poetic, and hybrid works that reinvent cinema through an afrocritical and innovative lens.

Concrete Moves Director/Writer: Fagamou Fama Ndiaye Producers: Chloe Ortolé Diop, Fagamou Fama Ndiaye Senegal / 2025 / 12' Experimental Concrete Moves is inspired by a childhood memory: the fear triggered by a snake during a school trip to the Mamelles lighthouse in Dakar. Returning to that same hill decades later.	God's Work Director/Writer: Michael James Producer: Sithabile Mkhize Music Composer: George Acogny Co-Producer: Marco Orsini Executive Producers: Toni Monty, Gary Springer South Africa / 2025 / 126' Fiction In a derelict building on the outskirts of Durban, a group of homeless men carve out a fragile existence amid violence, addiction, and the constant threat of being erased.	La Tinaja Directors/Writers: Ernestina Miranda, Mar Ajé Producer: Madre Monte Colombia / 2025 / 13'47'' Experimental Where do we keep our memories? Where do they endure? How do we evoke them? An epiphany dispels forgetfulness and reconstructs the bond between Esther, the protagonist, and her ancestors through the world of dreams, her mother's memories, and the restoration of an inherited clay vessel.
Mojugba Director/Writer: Gustavo Alonso Arias Producer: Fanny Milena Quiñones Colombia / 2026 / 23'33 Documentary, Experimental Fanny, an Afro-Colombian leader, turns the Mojugba, a Yoruba ritual of ancestral invocation, into an act of resistance. In a country that tries to erase its history, she teaches that remembering is revolutionary.	Leer en las gotas de lluvia Directors: Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen Writer: Xisca Minart Producer: Antenablue Spain / 2025 / 10'24 Experimental An Angolan artist and mother, her four-year-old daughter, and a New Zealand painter create imaginary worlds in new lands. These find echo in the poem by Xisca Minart, Read in Raindrops.	Poseseas Director: Sebastian Wiedemann, Daniel Cortés Producer: John Echavarria Cañas Colombia / 2025 / 16'18'' Documentary, Experimental Based on a critical and counter-current review of the historical figure of Javiera Londoño, an 18th-century landowner who supposedly contributed to the abolition of slavery in the region of Antioquia, Colombia.
Manman Chadwon Director/Writer: Gwladys Gambie Martinique / 2022 / 10'13 Experimental An anthem to fantastic femininity, to life, to freedom, and to metamorphosis, at once intimate and revolutionary. It is a sensory chant, a dreamlike reflection on the feminine condition within a destructive masculine world.	Face to face Director: Florent Mahoukou Producer: Florent Mahoukou R. Congo / 2021 / 19'54 Experimental At a difficult moment in his personal and professional life, choreographer Florent Mahoukou returns to the city of Pointe Noire, where, for him, everything began with dance.