Profiles of emerging filmmakers and important new voices.
Spotlight When Ego Reach We All, internationally titled Our Time Will Come, arrived at the 79th Locarno Film Festival this August, most of the attention went where it usually goes: to the director. Amartei Armar’s debut feature had entered Concorso Cineasti del Presente after his short TsutsuƐ became the first film from Sub-Saharan Africa selected for […]
Spotlight At the 79th Locarno Film Festival this August, Amartei Armar’s debut feature left with two prizes, not one. Ego Reach We All, known internationally as Our Time Will Come, won the Pardo for Change, a CHF 20,000 director’s award. And within Concorso Cineasti del Presente, the festival’s competition for first and second features, the jury […]
Newsroom In 2022, a short film called TsutsuƐ became the first film from Ghana, and from Sub-Saharan Africa, to compete in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Short Film competition. It made the final nine out of more than 3,500 submissions. This year, the same director, Amartei Armar, brings his debut feature to the Locarno Film Festival, […]
