College of Arts & Humanities

We are TANO: Film Festival

Black History Month College of Arts
Date: Thursday 01 October 2020 - Tuesday 20 October 2020
Time: 19:00 - 19:00
Venue: Online
Category: Films and theatre
Website: www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/we-are-tano/

Image credit: The Wedding Ring, Rahmatou Keïta, Niger/Sonrhay Empire Productions 2016

Join us, the UK’s five biggest festivals of African cinema – Scotland’s Africa in Motion, Afrika Eye in Bristol, the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), Film Africa in London, and Watch-Africa Cymru (Wales) – on an online journey of discovery during Black History Month, from 1-20 October 2020. 

WE ARE TANO will present a specially curated list of 10 contemporary African features from the past 10 years, which have been most popular with our festival audiences.  These will be available from 1 October on wearetano.org.  

WE ARE TANO will start streaming on Thursday, 1st October, at 6PM GMT. Each film will be available for 48 consecutive hours and may be viewed as many times as you wish, alone or with family/friends. Films will be free to watch, but we encourage donations. All proceeds from audience donations will go towards supporting the filmmakers and the TANO festivals.  
 

What is TANO?

‘Tano’ is the Swahili word for five and was adopted in 2015 as the umbrella name of the UK’s five biggest African film festivals. Each festival is independently run and curated, but the network collaborates to identify key films to screen nation-wide, bring in special guests, and generally raise the profile and visibility of African cinema in the UK. 

The TANO network was founded in February 2013 at FESPACO where Africa in Motion, Afrika Eye, the Cambridge African Film Festival and Film Africa signed the Ouagadougou Declaration. Through this declaration the festivals committed to working together to promote African cinema throughout the UK through:

• Sharing films and touring African film directors
• Joint publicity and funding applications
• Promoting the screening of African cinema films on all platforms and formats by all means possible.

Through our collective actions we aim to redress negative stereotyping and to celebrate the diversity of African cultures on UK screens. We aim to bring a Pan African collaborative vision to the organisation of TANO African festivals -UK.

The TANO network was founded in February 2013 at FESPACO where Africa in Motion, Afrika Eye, the Cambridge African Film Festival and Film Africa signed the Ouagadougou Declaration. 

For more information about each of the TANO festivals, please see:

 Africa In Motion, Scotland:  | @AiMfilmfest

Afrika Eye, Bristol and the SW | @AfrikaEyeFest

Film Africa, London and the SE | @FilmAfrica

Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF) | |@africambridge

Watch Africa, Wales | @Watch_WAFF

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