Afrokicks

Feature Film

A political satire from a mixed race teenage girl’s perspective, this is a story about self- determination and pride in one’s identity, whatever it might be. A celebration of Afro diaspora’s music and culture; the Afrobeats phenomenon in particular, this is a different kind of story about council estate kids rarely committed to film.

Afrokicks is a fresh dance comedy/drama is rooted in the vibrant Afrobeats community in based in South London. Step Up meets Election, this film mixes high school politics with a feel-good coming of age story.

Writer and Director

Jo Ingabire Moys is a Rwandan-British writer/director whose debut short film Bazigaga was nominated for a BAFTA in 2023. A child of two cultures, she moved from Africa to South London as a teenager, attending an all girls school in a wealthy neighbourhood, not too far from her humble abode. Drawing from her own very awkward, embarrassing, painful memories of straddling two oppositional worlds during her teen years, Afrokicks is her take on what the search for identity in London looks like.