Amfest

City:
Moscow

Cinemas:
Formula Kino Horizont

Dates:
17–28 September 2014

Partners:
Embassy of the United States of America
CoolConnections

Choose city for details:

• Ekaterinburg : 9–15 October 2014
• Voronezh : 9–15 October 2014
• Novosibirsk : 23–28 September 2014
• Moscow : 17–28 September 2014
• St. Petersburg : 17–23 September 2014

Афронавты
Afronauts

Country: USA
Year: 2014
Director: Frances Bodomo
Genre: short
Language: English
Time: 14 minutes
Возраст: +

Inspired by true events, Afronauts tells an alternative history of the 1960s Space Race. It’s the night of July 16th 1969 and, as America prepares to send Apollo 11 to the moon, a group of exiles in the Zambian desert are rushing to launch their rocket first. They train by rolling their astronaut, 17-year-old Matha Mwamba, down hills in barrels to simulate weightlessness. As the clock counts down to blast off, as the Bantu-7 Rocket looks more and more lopsided, Matha must decide if she’s willing to die to keep her family’s myths alive. Afronauts follows the scientific zeitgeist from the perspective of those who do not have access to it.

Awards and festivals:

Berlin Film Festival - participation
Sundance Film Festival - participation

Schedule:

Moscow: Formula Kino Horizont

26 September, Friday