International Images Film Festival for Women
The International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) is an annual international film festival established in 2002 in Harare in Zimbabwe. It is the only women's film festival in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Zimbabwean feminist Tsitsi Dangarembga established IIFF to celebrate the achievement of women filmmakers, as well as alter the representation of women on film.[1] The festival is run by Dangarembga and the Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe, and is now held yearly in November, screening films in Harare, Bulawayo and Chimanimani.[2]
The 16th IIFF was held in August 2017 as a joint festival in collaboration with the 19th Zimbabwe International Film Festival.[3] The theme of the 17th IIFF, held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in August 2018, was 'Reach Out'. The opening film was She is King. Other films screened were Mukanya, A Female Chief, Under Pressure, Somebody Clap For Me and The Sound of Silence.[4]
References
- ^ Agnieszka Piotrowska (2016). Black and White: Cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe. Taylor & Francis. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-317-59541-0.
- ^ Katrina Daly Thompson (2013). Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity. Indiana University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0-253-00646-5.
- ^ Zimbabwe International Film Festival ,Technology Zimbabwe, 21 August 2017.
- ^ Women’s international film festival kicks off, The Herald, 24 August 2018.