Namibia: 'African Metropolis' Features Six Stories From Six African Cities

18 September 2014

AFTER the pan-African short film competition 'Latitude' was successfully held between 2010 and 2012, the follow-up project 'African Metropolis' was initiated in 2012 by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, along with the International Film Festival Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund and the South African producer Steven Markovitz. For the first time, a major national sponsor could be secured for the project, too: the Nigerian Guaranty Trust Bank.

For this project, six African filmmakers portrayed life in six African cities: Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi.

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