AFRICA ENGAGE 2024

Africa Engage 2024 took place during CPH:DOX from 17-22 March 2024 and marked the first edition of the initiative. Throughout the week, African filmmakers, Danish producers, students and festival audiences met through screenings, debates, industry meetings and school visits. The program created new insight into the African continent through film -and opened conversations about storytelling, development, creativity and collaboration across borders.

Africa Engage 2024 consisted of four interconnected activities, carried out in partnership with STEPS, OPEN and CPH:DOX:

• Generation Africa Delegation - five filmmakers from across Africa participated in co-production sessions, round tables and professional meetings.
• Film Screenings & Debates - two African documentary films were screened at CPH:DOX with Q&As, panels and public conversations.
• Collaboration Across Borders Meeting - African and Danish filmmakers met to discuss co-production possibilities, realities and shared storytelling ambitions.
• Africa Engage in Schools - members of the delegation visited Danish schools for one-hour conversations with students about filmmaking, development issues and local impact.

DELEGATES AT AFRICA ENGAGE 2024

The Generation Africa delegation was brought to Copenhagen by STEPS, gathering filmmakers whose work spans development, youth, climate, identity and community impact. Delegation leaders were Don Edkins and Tiny Mungwe (STEPS, South Africa).

FILMS SCREENED AT AFRICA ENGAGE 2024

THE NIGHT STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER

Inadelso Coss | Mozambique | 2024 | 93 min.

A man revisits his grandparents' Mozambique village where he grew up when civil war raged. His grandmother protected him from the war back then. The film now shines light into that dark history prudently.

IMAGES FROM AFRICA ENGAGE 2024

THE BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA

Peter Murimi & Daphne Matziaraki | Kenya & US | 2024 | 94 min.

Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.