The Szczecin European Film Festival Opening Ceremony will traditionally be taking place at the TVP3 Szczecin studio. The programme includes a meeting with the Jury members and the European Competition participants, and a Polish première screening of Mara Lin Visser’s famous ethnographical film “Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra,” about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. Th e screening will be accompanied by a meeting with the author. The ceremony will be hosted by known Szczecin journalist, poet and literary critic Konrad Wojtyła.
The Partner of the Opening Ceremony is Szczecińska Energetyka Cieplna, West Pomerania's leading distributor of heat and electrical power vendor. Together with heating companies from Barlinek, Dębno, Łobez, Myślibórz, Połczyn-Zdrój, Słubice and Strzelec Krajeńskich, they create the SEC group.
An ethnographic film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. The comeback of African print seems to be emerging in the fashion system of Accra. By following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity of tailor-made fashion and hybrid styles; the ways in which African wear is used and the expression of culture through wardrobe. The process of sowing a dress shows the marriage of both fabric & design, tradition & creativity and husband & wife.
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