African Metropolis (2014)

The vitality of the African city has provided local filmmakers with a rich array of stories for their films African Metropolis presents six short films that examine the complexity of urban life in Abidjan Cairo Dakar Johannesburg Lagos and Nairobi They run the gamut of genres but in all the central character is the city itself A Jewish pensioner lives alone in a Johannesburg apartment the last resident of an everchanging city In a Nairobi of the future one man searches for the girl of his dreams Dakar is the backdrop to an intimate conversation between two women Abidjan once played host to the American artist JeanMichel Basquiat In Cairo a musician sees the gap between rich and poor expand And a final film confronts the perils of the poverty trap