Locarno Open Doors: 'Kachifo,' 'Black Snake,' 'Diary' Win Big

Dika Ofama’s “Kachifo (Till the Morning Comes),” Naishe Nyamubaya’s “Black Snake” and Azata Soro’s “Diary of a Goat Woman” won big at a vibrant Open Doors forum at this week’s Locarno Film Festival . The three shared its Open Doors Grant, the section’s main cash prize.

One of the most exciting facets of this year’s Locarno Festival, Open Doors underscored how a new generation of directors and producers are realigning African output and attempting to put into place industry structures – pan regional co-production in French-speaking Africa , genre pics and films which might appeal to Arab or Indian audiences – that might break with a dependence on European funding.

That said, Open Doors address development, surely one of the Achilles’ heels of international filmmaking at large, and t