WATCH Africa 2015 will bring the best of African cinema with a series of films screened across Wales from Friday, October 3.

This year’s festival aims to provide viewers with an insight into some of the issues facing people on the continent, with a focus on three main themes; Young Africans, From Africa with love and the North Africa Spring.

The Young Africans theme will include 13 films, from the challenges facing a young albino in ‘White Shadow’ to ‘Finding Fela’ which looks at the important role of the musician Fela Kuti, the afro-beat movement and the revolutionary political opinions which helped bring change from the Nigerian dictatorship of the 1970-80’s.

From Africa with love will explore the universal theme of love from a truly African context. Kenya’s ‘Stories of our Lives’ explores the issue of sexuality through a series of short films. Breathe Umphemulo brings a contemporary twist through a topical reworking of Puccini’s classic opera La bohème focusing on the damage done by tuberculosis in South African townships.

Three films will look at the conditions and social movements that triggered the wave of uprisings in what we call the North African or Arab ‘Spring’. The Moroccan/Belgian film ‘Horses of God’ looks and the rise of fundamentalism, whilst ‘We are Giants’ grapples with the agonising and universal dilemmas at the heart of all struggles; to take up arms and fight, or to advocate change through peace and non-violence.

The festival is supported by British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council Wales, Black History Month, Welsh Government, Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP), Cardiff University and Hub Cymru Africa.

For more information and to see the full programme visit watch-africa.co.uk/.