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The European Union Film Festival returns to Bulawayo tomorrow for its second edition with 11 movies set to be screened at the Large City Hall.

Admission to the festival that ends on Saturday is free and part of the screenings will show a documentary and a feature film. Screenings start at 5.30pm.

Opening the festival is I am Not A Witch, an award-winning feature drama by Zambian-born Rungano Nyoni. Another production to look forward to is Leaving Africa from Finland. It documents friendship and determination for an unlikely pair of development aid workers providing sexual health and equality education in rural Uganda.

Thomas von Handel, Chargé d’ Affairs of the European Union Delegation to Zimbabwe, said: “We’re thrilled to bring this festival back to Bulawayo and to have the City of Bulawayo on board as our new partner, which will help grow the event.”

He said the selection of movies this year was an even more befitting illustration of European cinema and its artistic variety.

“And this comes at the right time: in 2018, we celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage of which cinema forms an integral part as a channel to share our memories, our myths and our narratives.

“Cultural heritage binds us together in all our diversity through our common history and values as well as the richness and variety of our cultural traditions. It helps us to design our future,” said von Handel.

During the Film festival week, two films will be screened every evening but on the last day on Saturday four movies will be shown.