Direction Africa — Leopard Festival at SFF

The LAMPART Short Film Festival is a dynamically developing annual event held in Mombasa that focuses on promoting the short film form and supporting young filmmakers from the Kenyan coast and academia. Since its inauguration in 2023, the festival has become an important platform for the presentation of films in categories such as documentary, plot, animation and experimental forms, with a limit of up to 15 minutes. LAMPART is co-organized by the Academy of Arts in Szczecin and the Technical University of Mombasa, in close cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi, which from the beginning includes the event with honorary patronage, and from 2025 also funds prizes for laureates, including the Grand Prix. Key partners are also: Alliance Française de Mombasa, KreniArt Limited, Coastal Film Association, IdeaSync Studios, University of Silesia in Katowice and Polish Aesthetic Society. The festival was created as a direct, long-term result