games his music it's bound to. his fans to open stores. sounds good. i'm sure that's so much more than just background music video music stores for you were on w. this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes africa's most populous nation goes to the polls candidates have been making their final pitches it's now up to nigeria's eighty four million registered voters to choose the next president we have an exclusive with one of the men vying for the top job. and the story of a young girl whose stream of becoming a superhero is threatened by terminal illness we'll talk to one of the screenwriter the award winning film supermoto.

i'm christi paul come to africa it's good to have you with us the campaigning has ended and the candidates have said all they can say it's now time for bush is to choose between continuity and reform in nigeria's presidential since the end of military rule twenty years ago it's the country's first presidential election to include a generation of bushes who only know democracy flourish to quote a has this explainer on africa's biggest even action the right. current president mohamed the routine. and he turns out the former vice president. carter from the up with this on people's democratic party president barak came into office saying we don't comprehend bombing by being corrupt son and crossing the extremist group board. four years later president haris by his corruption has received accolades

and praise on the other wall except. where many remain point that every cent. has a wall of highest concentration. on our almost. doesn't sound good scene was said was if he had to. change anything to. continue to write why restrung. is promising economic prosperity sorry nigeria. for thirty nine president unemployment. i used to be airing some sort of woodsy because of the mc diplomacy use. those

things that. need to be doing what are you talking about. miss it when you do something i want to know is using. it's. really some of the race when i do ask talk appears to be yes it's in the to be. shown by national as well as endorsement from niger as. seems to be the man who was president in the country. club father storms usually run for office themselves what's been the yeah the ones who decide the election are was that their pilots co-sponsor. will use money and

influence to win so the fed cut of the goods. this is not always so let's head for the political out it's huge but rather on the absolute sea to repeat and barely reach that goal as far as going to the will. move to move us one person. to the west you will make money to. do to still young man who are believed to through discipline. to support those workers under some. things like this abuses. under siege. by all the. drop the cool moment. for me to step into one of the most probably meant among this hopeful news as characterized by gold in the mists of time lame stranger asked to party establishment and by that age it's social media campaign that run even makes way to

sixty eight and out the hostile not so young to run such see that in lowering the required age of the president will speak for thirty five while the two main candidates. who are above all that and that when. the country where one of them takes the president of the british on is less than twenty five years old i got on planes that also been pushing for people to get involved in. by signing up to the board and everything else of the employees what do you mean on your part that i read is not true it would seem to be i'm sure many out there would be friends with the. at a told our adrian krishna why he's confident of victory against. so what makes you optimistic that this time around you will get the majority of nigerians voting for you i was able to secure the ticket of the party in

a very very convincing. and then after that you know this is our laws state this was electioneering campaign is going son. we have been able to us as you know seem to be new to your party and also the country due to the budget so that makes one very hopeful there's been many corruption allegations against you but you were never convicted by any called yet when you talk to ordinary nigerians is it here or in lagos many would say even your supporters they don't fully believe you that you were never in any formal offer to question why do you think this conception are going to be doable you need to then before they've got. you know they will have every reason to believe in me but why do you think this conception is still that the position is there because my open is always latched on to that so i mean any argues issue and that gives one to be done all the time when the time is well and you know to receive the additional people you said you would consider granting amnesty to looters if they return stolen state funds do you think that is

a right thing to do many people would think that would be a sign of impunity for the future not necessarily but what the. news to you again would be based on the rule of the country you know in order to go help provision for that you know a loss. but is that something you definitely going to do or something you're just going to do something we could consider. differently i'm going to do but it's something we would have considered the security situation has been deteriorating and parts of the country also here in the north east and recent weeks what is your assessment of the leadership of the security forces especially the military leadership have they been doing a good job was that something you will look into once if you if you will be elected as a present. and. our number one additions again is dimitri our caller. and this is a local true name. a novel. the necessary working

conditions you know for them to survive for as you know their love for the people of this country so you have to look at all these issues in a holistic manner and solutions to them all right here in berlin we're at the business end of the city's annual international film festival the billion dollar the eleven day showcase brains to give the stalls of international film and up and coming talent from around the world like kenyan screenwriter gombeen teco who this week picked up yet another award for his film super motives the film tells the story of a terminally ill nine year old whose wishes are becoming a superhero of the filled with the help of the family and villages. to make a genius sat down with gumby tika to talk about all things african film but first let's take a peek at the film that's making waves troll you see in class people you pick up a twenty six point two that he was set in the chapel she was a little kid was

a little too much of the monoclonal wasn't it's not that there was a lot. of truth to funny. he said i guess astound.

we did not expect. that supermoto was going to take on the life that he did on the festival circuit. i didn't even expect when i was sitting in the room during the premier it was going to carry the way to did in an audience in once in a mall and it's received so much applause and received ovations and their flaws just went on and on for about five minutes straight and it was only interrupted by the fact that this little scene after the credits that it plays and i mean it was just spectacular i think the thing that carries about it is that it's such a heart warming film about triumph over adversity the power of community and providing this division being

a little go who succeeds against all odds to show everyone that it's possible to follow your dreams and be who you want to be against all these enormous audience has a lot of people. just reminded again about what the power of cinema is there's a school of thought that for african movie to be world class you sort of have to copy western standards to be able to reach the international market the international audience. how true or not to be untrue what is the superhero film this is a kids' film but it's also a very can in film that is a film that you could see it was satisfy you could see how some horror elements in it but it's a drama about the afterlife but that still has a very can and twist to it you can take any of these conventions that exist around the world and add an african convention to it that makes it really authentically

nor call but still very translatable to the whole world my question generally what really should we be proud of very good question. the kings of cinema have existed on this side of the world right and they have established what cinema ought to nor like and sound like and feel like and what kind of stories can be told on the big screen and. african filmmakers for a long time have been on the side to watching but now here and there enough with the best of them telling our stories with our very authentic flavor and i think that's what we're most proud of that we're standing on and i mean that we thought was owned and managed and run by people from other parts of the world but we have as might see in what gets to be seen like robots thank you very much i

do think that that is it for news africa for now you can catch all our stories on our face facebook and website that's the news i'm christine wonder if i could ginia will be with you make street by. let's start and. take a closer look at modern culture from. n.p.r. . culture. crimes against humanity civilians become witnesses. they're recording images travel around the globe you know social media. and what is fact and digital investigators comb through the flood of images they combine

sources to try to reconstruct. and substantiate claims of promises. from. and six between bits of parts. truth detectives starts february fifteenth on t.w. . hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robin merrill and it's the byrne and international film festival all the way today as it's coming to a close we'll talk to a film expert about movies in the stars and about the future of the festival. first of all let's celebrate the great actress charlotte rampling who was almost on thursday evening with a special gold baffle knife time achieve. she became

a star back in the one nine hundred sixty s. with films like the dad and is known for her cool on screen presence she's worked with actors and directors from around the world performing in english french and italian now a golden bad life so. i'm an older woman and when you when you've actually lived to live quite a long life this great actually had that lifetime celebrated my job goes beyond a. functioning thing it's about telling stories we tell stories when you die. and joining me now from the heart of the festival down in part some of our encyclopedia of film if i may mr scott roxboro a man who i know has a soft spot for shallow rampling. yeah i was had the great pleasure privilege a few years back of being able to interview miss ram.