2024
Feature Narrative(Philadelphia Premiere)(Best Feature Narrative Nominee)

After the Long Rains

CC
Closed captions online
OC
Open captions in-person
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Ten-year-old Aisha wants to become a fisher, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. However, one day Aisha meets a fisherman named Hassan who decides to teach her how to fish.

Thank you to our screening partner: Mighty Writers and The Colored Girls Museum

Screenings

Virtual

August 2 – August 4
August 1 – August 3

Directors Spotlight

A picture of a young Black man named Damien Hauser, standing in front of a serene blurred rich green background. He has shoulder-length dreadlocks, a neatly trimmed beard, and is wearing a dark, textured woolen sweater. His facial expression is calm, with a small, relaxed smile, and he looks directly at the camera.

Damien Hauser

Director

Damien Hauser is a Filmmaker based in Switzerland. He was born in Zurich in 2001. At the age of seven, he began producing short films. He studied at the film school SAE from 2016 to 2020 and worked for a commercial production company called FILME VON DRAUSSEN from 2018 to 2020. He used to make his own short films together with friends and took on all kinds of jobs such as music videos, plays and commercials. But his greatest passion has always been fictional storytelling. Nowadays he focuses on directing and scriptwriting.

Runtime
90 minutes
Country
Tanzania
Language
Swahili macrolanguage
Director
Damien Hauser
Cast
Electricer Kache Hamisi, Bibi Swaleh, Bosco Baraka Karisa, Najima Khanda, Ibrahim Joseph
Producer
Art4um Production GmbH, Damien Hauser
Premiere
Philadelphia

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