Location Africa
In order to bring attention to African stories and to encourage filming in the continent a special program ”Location Africa" will focus on international productions filmed in Africa.
Location Africa is curated by and co-presented in collaboration with the New York based independent programming and distribution company Seagull Films.
Selection of films in the Location Africa section of CNIFF 2012:
| My White Baby/Me Broni Ba | Nora |
| Akosua Adoma Owusu - USA - 2009 - 22m | Alla Kovgan - Zimbabwe/UK/USA - 2008 - 35m |
 “Our own beauty is lost on us.” |
 “This gorgeous dance-poem has startling color and exquisite details.” |
| The Unshod Man/Le dechausse | In Rhythm of Time |
| Laurence Attali - Senegal/France - 2003 - 35m | Daniel E. Thorbecke, Oli Weiss - Germany - 1999 - 52m |
 “Love, family and music tell the story of our lives.” |
 “Nobody wants to leave the fertile soil of their ancestors without any reason and actual threat.” |
| African Underground: Democracy in Dakar | Pumzi |
| B. Herson, M. McIlvaine, C. Moore - USA/2009 - 69m | Wanuri Kahiu - Kenya - 2009 - 20m |
 “We track youth so that we can change our practices.” |
 “Asha is Strong, engaging and personable.” |
| Sunday In Brazzaville | |
| Enric Bach, Adrià Monés - Spain/Congo-Brazzaville - 2011 - 51m | |
 “Danger suffers traffic jams and loves to enjoy the weekend too.” |
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Al Jazeera Showcase
Co-presented with ENCOUNTERS International Documentary Film Festival
Al Jazeera English (AJE) is an international 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera. The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology and sports. The station claims to be the first global high-definition television network. Al Jazeera English is the world's first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview.
| Africa Investigates: Fool's Gold | Witness - "On the Brink" |
| Clive Patterson - Ghana - 2011 - 25m | Tom Evans, Kevin Rushby - Kenya - 25m |
 “Gold is Back!” |
 “The new face of the dangers posed by globalization.” |
| People & Power: "King Cobra and the Dragon" | |
| Solange Chatelard, Scott Corben - Zambia - 25m | |
 “Will the Chinese turn to dragon slayers?” |
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