Festival Schedule:
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Cruzer Cinema
Opening Ceremony
VIP 30,000 LE
Short Films
Music Videos
Stories From Lakka Beach
Feature | International
Five residents, a fisherman, a carver, a restaurant owner, a local politician and an aspiring rapper share what it is like living in this former tourist town.
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Ministry of Tourism
Moving To The Beat
Short
An African-American music group travels to Salone to share their experience and music with the locals.
Love Battle In Hell
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
An old chief wants to marry the young girl set aside for sacrifice. What will happen?
Short Film Series 1
Shooting Freetown
Short | International
An international film maker explores media centres in Freetown.
The Crusade
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
Shedding light in societies that still retain light in harmful and evil traditions.
Peace Memorial at Cotton Tree
Welcome Ceremony
5,000 LE | VIP 30,000 LE
Sierra Leone Independence
Short | International
A news documentary. Sierra Leoneans are handed the staff from the Queen as a symbol for Sierra Leone's Independence from Great Britain.
Agenda for Change (Trailer)
Sierra Leonean Film
A trailer for the upcoming Feature length documentary about H.E Koroma's agenda for change.
State Crime
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
A patriot soldier fights to defend his country. When his personal life is threatened his loyalty is put to the test. Who is fighting for whom in West Africa's very first ACTION FILM!
Various Shorts / Music Videos
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Miatta
Tragedy of Love
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
Jack and Rose must find a way to be together against all odds. A love story that highlights both the tragedy and comedy of love.
Deadly Misfortune
Short | Sierra Leonean Film
Top comedians act this comedy of 50%. Wherein a woman is forced to find two husbands.
Short Film Series 2
The Game is Over
Short | Sierra Leonean Film
Utilising silent film techniques, a street boy finds his life transformed through work and God.
Short Film Series 3
Okada Love
Short | Sierra Leonean Film / International
A-class has one day to win back his love before she is gone forever. Will he make it in time?
Broken Tradition
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
Customs and traditions are made by man and can be broken by man. What happens when the new prince questions these traditions concerning his new bride?
The Cause
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
Trials during an election in a Mende village cause children from opposing tribes (Temne and Mende) to be banned from marrying one another.
British Council
Women of the World Day
By Invitation Only
Screenings followed by talks and discussion
Dark Side Of Life
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
One mans desire to seek revenge after his peaceful life is thrown into darkness by the people he trusted most.
Cruzer Cinema
The Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars
A band formed at a refugee camp in guinea returns home for the first time since the war.
Short Film Series 4
Panel: Salone Actors
Craft*
Feature | GFI Film
A talented but underemployed artist in Rio, performing for private events dressed as female movie icons. We follow the everyday tragedy in the working world of the artist.
Panel: Women in Media
Grey Matter*
Feature | International
A self-referential film-within-a-film set in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, describes the vision and trails of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, The Cycle of a Cockroach in the aftermath of genocide.
* The Finger, Craft, and Grey Matter are part of the Global Lens 2012 film series and co-presented with the Global Film Initiative.
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Miatta
Adventure Of a Good Lover
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
Mama Salone puts a curse on Valentine Village. Young people can love whoever they chose, but if they touch, they die.
Madam
Short
A local NGO, MADAM promotes self sustaining development by helping people to help themselves.
Zymat
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
A sacrilege has been committed in the land. Who is responsible? Time is running out.
TBA
British Council
Lost Hope
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
A village girl comes to the city to further her education and finds the city and dating life is quite different from upcountry.
Panel: At Risk Women in Film
Circle of Slavery
Short | International
A documentary saluting the courageous men and woman, from the shores of Africa to the domain of slavery to Freetown, the realm of the free. Diaspora made.
Unveiled Views
Short | International
Muslim Women Artists Speak Out. Five muslim women speak about their occupations, aspirations, and the rights and status of women in their countries.
Breaking The Rules
Feature | Sierra Leonean Film
A player turned desperate seeker of love, searches for a virgin wife. He hires a friend to test his women's love, will he find the right women?
Cruzer Cinema
Short Film Series 5
The Finger*
Feature | GFI Film
A severed finger in a jar becomes as an absurd icon of leadership for the mayor of a remote town in Argentina. Based on true events.
Awards Ceremony
VIP 30,000 LE
* The Finger, Craft, and Grey Matter are part of the Global Lens 2012 film series and co-presented with the Global Film Initiative.
American Embassy
All Day Filmmakers Workshop
The deadline to apply for this event has passed.
Tribewanted Jon Obey Village
Mixed Shorts Program and Features Screening on the Beach
About The Festival:
The Sierra Leone International Film Festival (SLIFF) is a year-round collaborative film exploration featuring ongoing education programs and an annual six day film festival. Through its programs SLIFF aims to create a platform for audiences to rejoice in the culture and communities of Sierra Leone as they experience cinema from around the world.
The annual festival takes place in the capital city of Freetown March 29 – April 3, 2012, with additional screenings and education programs in Kenema, Bo, Kono and Makeni. This allows the festival to reach across tribal and political lines unifying the country in a positive, creative, educational experience while hosting international visitors and sharing in the world of cinema together. Whether festival goers are screening international documentary and feature films, participating in workshops, hand rowing a tree canoe to Bunce Island slave port, taking in an evening screening on the beach or discussing film at a panel in a remote village, the Sierra Leone International Film Festival is an experience like no other.
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