The organisers hope the event will attract entries from all over the world – with special focus on Africans at home and abroad.
Charity Maruta, acting ZIFF director, said: “We have decided to shift the dates to end of September because of the weather. Usually the festival has been held in August, but we want to move to warmer weather, to attract a large audience since all the screenings will be held outdoors in the Harare Gardens.”
Maruta said the competition was open to all African films and to co-productions between Africans and other nationalities.
“Some of the films to feature at the festival include Viva River, the first film from the DRC, The Redemption of General Butt Naked from Liberia, Restless Spy from New York in the United States and Paradise Stop, a comedy from South Africa,” she said,.
Television series and filmmaking forums will be held at the Book Café as part of the festival, which is held to promote love, peace, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Features, films, fiction and documentaries throughout Africa will form part of the festival exhibitions but must have been directed or produced between 2009 and this year to be eligible for the competition.
Oliver Mtukudzi, Victor Kunonga, Dudu Manhenga, Chiwoniso Maraire, Winky D, Andy Brown and Lubumbashi Stars will perform at the festival.
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