The list of nominees for the 4th edition of the annual Mashariki African Film Festival is out.

This year’s edition runs between March 25 and March 31 at the Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village (Camp Kigali).

The theme for this year is; "Value, Image and Identity.”

Aside from the main venue, the festival will also take film goers around Kigali, with screenings at the Century Cinema, Impact Hub (The Office), Cine Star, Maidon des Jeunes in Kimisagara, and the Goethe Institut.

Film entries at this year’s competition have been classified under two main categories; Competition and Panorama.

According to Tresor Senga, the festival founder and president, the festival is an annual cultural gathering that aims at bringing a wide selection of African films to an African audience.

"Mashariki African Film Festival consists of film screenings and rewarding Rwandan and African Filmmakers and empowering them through trainings offered by local and International specialized professionals. The festival promotes, advocates for and collaborates with other cultural events in different member states of the East African community,” he added.

Films under the Competition category will further be grouped under five sub-categories;

Rwandan Short Films, East African Short Films, African Short Fictions, African Documentaries, and African Feature Films.

The Panorama category features films from across the globe but with an Afrocentric storyline.

Below is the list of selected films:

RWANDAN SHORT FILMS:A Place for MyselfDusabejambo Clementine |21’45’’| RwandaAkarwaYuhiAmuli |10’35’’| RwandaImfuraIshimwe Samuel | 36’19”| RwandaPay BackDukundane James |7’20”| Rwanda

She Wasn’t MeSangwa Deus | 11’15”| Rwanda

Strength in FearMutuyimana Ella |30’29’’| Rwanda

The Secret of HappinessMutigandaWaNkunda |15’| Rwanda

Yes We CanHabumugishaEmiel |10’| Rwanda

The DiscordGirishya Serge |5’22’’| Rwanda

AFRICAN DOCUMENTARIES:

Eve Kornou

Magdaleine Eyrankwashe | 14’43” | Ghana

Filles BkFrancine Nyakabwa | 52’31’’| Rdc

InflectionMinie Kumi | 15’10” | Ghana

Le Silence De LydieAissataOuarma |52’23” | Burkinafaso

Memory of MissionariesDelphine Wil |55’36” | RDC

Oh!BoitshokoJeremia |9’33” | Botswana

Place a La RevolutionParfait Kabore|1h23’30’’ | Burkina Faso

Salt Water SurvivorsMusembi Faith|23’38” | KenyaSur Le Chemin Des PhosphateMalik El Manoug Mohammed Nadrami |1h25’46 | Morocco

BountyShyaka Kagame |1h20’| Rwanda & Switzerland

TrésorTisséNiyonsaba Mireille |26’45” | Burundi

Une Lettre A PaxyTshoperKabambi |16’06” | DRC.

Who Am IKahiu Wanuri and Nick Redding | 30’15” | Kenya

PANORAMA

PANORAMAA raging People

Frederic Ragny |49’14”| France and Burkina Faso

Accra Power

Sandra Krampellhuber and Andrea Verena Strasser | 48’48’’| Australia and Ghana

Burkinabe Rising

Iara Lee |1hr11’35”| Burkina Faso and Brazil

Cahier Africain

Heidi Specogna |1hr59’|Switzerland and Central Africa

Kayabike

MattiaTrabucchi | 44’36”| Italy and South Africa

Malgache d’Amérique

Alex B.Martin | 5’30”| Canada

AFRICAN SHORT FICTIONS:

AFRICAN SHORT FICTIONS:A place for myselfClementine Dusabejambo |21’45”| Rwanda

Black SpiritChakibTalebBandiab | 20’35”| Tunisia

EngulfedKojoOwideru |7’06”| Ghana

EscapeRim Nakhli | 15’44’’| Tunisia

HandsFrank Lea MALLE |10’58”| CamerounImfuraIshimwe Samuel | 36’19”| Rwanda

JunkyardKarima Guenouni | 17’14”| Morocco

Les escales de l’oubliJean Luc Sylvain Miheaye | 27’22”| TogoMama Bobo

IbrahimaSeydi& Robin Anderfinger | 16’26”| Senegal, Belgium & FranceMayiD

’asilveiraAjete | 14’03’’| Togo

One to one

HeniHnana |11’28”| Tunisia

One week two daysMarwaZein | 20’15”| Sudan

RefractionBoussaberLahoucine | 05’25”| Morocco

Une peine à vivreOmar Amroun | 15’47”| Morocco