African Film Festival of Tarifa
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The African Film Festival of Tarifa (spanish
Festival de cine africano de Tarifa, FCAT) is an annual film festival
held in Tarifa
(Andalusia
, Spain
), dedicated to African cinema and to Africa
-related productions (feature film
s, animation
, short films, documentary film
s).
The festival is organized by the association Al-Tarab, which was born in Tarifa in 2003, and it started in 2004 as African Film Exhibition of Tarifa. From the 4th edition, in 2007, it was renamed African Film Festival of Tarifa.
The festival includes three competitive sections:
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
Festival de cine africano de Tarifa, FCAT) is an annual film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
held in Tarifa
Tarifa
Tarifa is a small town in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, on the southernmost coast of Spain. The town is located on the Costa de la Luz and across the Straits of Gibraltar facing Morocco. The municipality includes Punta de Tarifa, the southernmost point in continental Europe. There are five...
(Andalusia
Andalusia
Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a nationality of Spain. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, Jaén, Granada and...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
), dedicated to African cinema and to Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
-related productions (feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
s, animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
, short films, documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
s).
The festival is organized by the association Al-Tarab, which was born in Tarifa in 2003, and it started in 2004 as African Film Exhibition of Tarifa. From the 4th edition, in 2007, it was renamed African Film Festival of Tarifa.
The festival includes three competitive sections:
- El Sueño Africano (feature films)
- Del Otro Lado del Estrecho (documentary films)
- África en Corto (short films)