Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser ‘s ( After the Long Rains , Blind Love ) new feature, Memory of Princess Mumbi , world premiered in the Giornate Degli Autori, or Venice Days , program, the independent parallel section of the Venice Film Festival. The sci-fi romance mockumentary , which is set in a futuristic Africa and explores such themes as memory, finding happiness in a tragic world and the importance of small moments, next screens at the Toronto International Film Festival, starting on Friday.

“In 2094, aspiring director Kuve (Abraham Joseph) films a documentary on the Great War of the 2070s, which erased modern technology and revived kingdoms,” says a synopsis in the movie. “Expecting to find despair in Umata, the heart of the war’s aftermath, he instead disco

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