our competition trade. the our. armed forces and the european union compete effectively this new international. military twenty million team unix security card to. get rid of. this is the 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 has 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 dream up becoming a superhero is threatened by terminal illness we'll talk to one of the screenwriters of the award winning film supermoto.

i'm christine will welcome to news 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 voters to choose between continuity and reform in nigeria's presidential voters since the end of military rule twenty years ago it's the country's first presidential election to include a generation of bush's who've only known democracy flourish to quote a has this explainer on africa's biggest even action the right to make content about current president mohamed worried for the routine all progress. on his sermons out of the former vice president. carter from the opposition on the people's democratic party president who are prepared to offer his. we've made our campaign promises are guided by think corrupt son and of course an extremist group with barbara. four

years later top president. tax receipts and praised by the wall except a school where many remain a point that every center. has a wall of highest concentration. on our almost. seems to get soon was said was if to. change anything. as what i've. seen you do it right why me strong opposition. is promising economic prosperity sorry nigeria and. thirty nine president unemployment. right there i used to be our number so who would see them see the misuse of. those things.

doing what i'm talking about. not to. miss it we do something about what's out there don't want to know as usual. it's. really the race when i do ask you all 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. and how he was a good father as don't usually run for office themselves but many believe the ones who decide the election are was that there was postponed sauce. will use money as

in females to win support for that perfect condi gets their vote so as this is a huge i'm not always so let's head for their political out to you but brother of the abbey it's easy to repeat and reach their goal as far as london with. a little they do as well as it is. true as you will make good soup. out of the. fluid supposed. to do so under some. scenes like this in business. i'm afraid. you might all be. dropped. from a step into one of the most prominent among this hopeful characterized by the when the mists of time names are asked to a party establishment and by that age it's social media comping that run to make

its way to sixty and out the hostile not so young to run such see that in lowering the required age of the president so close to thirty five while the two main candidates. who worked out well all that said when. she went well then take the president of the population is less than twenty five years old companies i've also been pushing people to get involved in. by signing up because as a result of these employees what seems to lean on you for the iraqis not to will be as many out there will be spending time with. at a told our adrian krishna why he's confident of victory against one. 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 my now. and then after that you know this is our laws state this was electioneering companies grandson. we have been able to us is yes of debility of the party and also the country due to all the budgets or that makes one very hopeful they have been many corruption allegations against you but you were never convicted by any cause 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 form and off to question why do you think this conception of things you need to do them before they got. you know they will have every reason to believe in me but why do you think this conception of still that position is there because my open is always latch on to that so i'm in any argues issue and that keeps on being to be done all the time when the time is well you know to deceive the additional people he said he 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 they were given. amnesty again would be based on the rule of the country you know in order to go help provision for that you know laws. but is that something you definitely going to do or the something you're just considering something we could consider. differently i'm going to do but there's something we would have considered the security situation has been deteriorating and parts of the country also here in the northeast and recent weeks what is the assessment of the leadership of the security forces especially the military leadership have they been doing a good job or is that something you will look into once it if you if you will be elected as a present. and. i'm the model relegations i guess dimitri our caller. and there's. a local that would be the military and. 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 all these issues in the list of mana and missions 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 brings to give the stalls of international film and up and coming talent from around the world like kenyan screenwriter and gun being teco who this week picked up yet another award for his film 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 the to talk about all things african film but first it's take a peek at the film that's making waves troll he doesn't call for you to come to a on the search one thing that he was sent to the chapel was that the kid was

a little too much of the man on the front of the movement it's not that i wasn't up . to five. he said i guess it's down.

we did not expect. that supermodel 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 premiere it was going to carry that we 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 high performing film about triumph over adversity the power of community and the production is to this film 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 or international audience. how true or not to the and to what is a 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 safe i 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 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 watching but now here we are in the arena with the best of them telling our stories with our very authentic leave. and i think that's what we ought to be most proud of that we're standing on and i mean that we thought was ordained and managed and run by people from other parts of the world but we have as might say in what gets to be seen like robots thank you very much eddie those fun thank you that is it for news africa for now you can

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