Africa in Motion Short Film Competition

AFRICA IN Motion Film Festival (AiM) has announced the shortlist for the annual Short Film Competition. Due to ongoing circumstances after the pandemic and the recent devastating news about the Centre for Moving Image, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Filmhouse cinemas, this year’s festival will be in a hybrid format.

AiM’s annual Short Film Competition has been running successfully since 2008 and this year, the festival received

more than 600 entries of outstanding quality and variety including animation and hybrid documentary work.

Filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora were invited to submit short films made after 2020 with a running time of no more than 30 minutes.

The winning film and director will be announced at the festival’s closing night film. Audience members will be able to submit ratings after watching the short films and an Audience Choice

Award will be granted as a result. Ranging in topic, theme and form, the virtuosity of African film has shone

through once again.

Director of Africa in Motion, Liz Chege, said: “We are deeply humbled to be in a position to support emerging filmmakers from the African continent and the Black diaspora once more, and for the first time since 2019, offer an an in-person edition. With the cultural sector in Scotland experiencing such a precarious time, we feel it more than ever that our collective future rests on supporting each other to flourish.”