2022 KINONAMIBIA FILM FESTIVAL

The 4th edition of the KinoNamibia Film Festival was successfully hosted from 26-29 August 2022 at the Goethe Institut in Windhoek.

KinoNamibia a youth film hub project of the Namibia Film Commission aims to create a platform for upcoming like-minded filmmakers to share film ideas, network, transfer skills and create content over a specified period. It also allows young people to create content around societal issues that affect them.

This time around a total of 163 participants registered online with over 120 youth ranging from mostly the ages of 12 – 30 showing up for the production challenge.

The vibrant and passion driven youths pitched 16 great story concepts around seven of the seventeen selected thematic Agenda 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals namely, Poverty, Health, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Innovation, Climate change and Governance respectively. The ideas were further reduced to 12 through voting among the participants.

After a vigorous non-stop conceptualization, pre, production and editing process, 12 films were successfully produced. This proved to be a great on the job learning experience for the participants, highlighting the realities of working within the film production industry comprising of long working hours, precise planning, continuous improvising and delivery pressures that are required in order to meet the deadlines. While passion, creativity, determination, perseverance, sacrifice and hardwork are all qualities required in great measures to succeed in the field.

However, all the 12 groups persisted through putting in all-nighters and successfully delivered the short films that were screened on 29 August 2022 to a fully packed Goethe Institut auditorium. The film titles screened are Choices, Nagskof, Forgiveness, Fish Climbing a Tree, Ghost Boy, Talk to Me, Gender Conference, On the Verge of Life, Career Ladder, Four Seasons: Nam Day, Indebted, Nobody’s Home.

The films that included all the different genres from real life dramas, comedies and gender discussions were well received by the audience. As at many times the audience broke into thunderous laughter and applaud.

The continuous success of the project especially this year after a two-year disruption during 2019 and 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic proves to be a much needed platform to productively engage the youth in the creative industry.

KINO NAMIBIA would further like to greatly thank the sponsors of the festival for their continuous support. Namibia Film Commission, for its commitment towards the project, the Goethe-Institut Namibia for its continuous venue sponsorship, the United Nations Development Programme Accelerator Lab Namibia and One Africa TV. Without your generous support towards youth development, hosting this project will not have been possible. We thus take this opportunity to invite more sponsors & partners to support this youth lead initiative for further hosting of the festival.

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Issued by: KinoNamibia Film Festival For all enquiries contact Andreas Elifas 081 698 0693

or Nicola Muranda 061 381 900/Nicola.Muranda@mict.gov.na.

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