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THE DELIVERANCE OF COMFORT
Nigeria 2010
Director: Zina Saro Wiwa
Short film, 8 min
English spoken
no subtitles
A short satirical fable about a 'child witch' called Comfort, THE DELIVERANCE OF COMFORT is a critical and densely-layered response to the belief in child witches in some parts of Nigeria and Africa.
Zina Saro-Wiwa is a Nigerian born film-maker and video artist. She is the founder of AfricaLab, a production company dedicated to re-imagining Africa through visual media, principally film and art. Saro-Wiwa is the director of the award-winning documentary This is my Africa, which was part of the AITP festival program in 2009.
This short film is part of the Round about African Shorts program, Shorts 3 and will be screened with THE LEGEND OF NGONG HILLS - PHYLLIS - ALAMBAMENTO - STRESSED - TINYE SO - ZEBU