Festival rules and regulations
Film Submission Criteria
Language Requirements
Subtitles Requirements
Submission Criteria
Submission Deadlines
Film Submission Criteria
Films should be independent in spirit and original in perspective.
Open to all films made with less than 50% participation by a major studio or television broadcaster.
Language Requirements
Films may be submitted in any language,
Please Note: If the film is NOT in English, it must have English subtitles.
Subtitles Requirements
The films in English, selected to be screened at the festival.
Please note: Appropriate subtitles are required to ensure the best screening for our audience.
Submission Criteria
A synopsis of no more than 180 characters, in English , a screenshot from the film and a short director’s biography also in English are requested upon submission.
Submission Deadlines
Early bird: 08 May 2025
Regular: 4 June 2025
Late: 2 July 2025
Notification date: 20 August 2025
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES FOR AAIFF AFRICA 2024
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic (CAR)
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe