The dates for the Maputo Fast Forward festival, which will take place from 18 to 26 October 2024, are approaching and as time goes by the details are being fine-tuned for yet another edition of one of the most diverse and creative festivals taking place in Mozambique.
Firstly, the festival will concentrate its activities over nine days and with a new format. For the first time, the MFF will have its main programme taking place in a single space, so it promises to be an experience made up of greater interaction and networking between the public and the protagonists, who include academics, artists and creatives in different disciplines.
The MFF will occupy a building located in downtown Maputo, transforming it into a real centre for ideas and creation. It is part of the JFS Corporate Tower project, made up of two 14-storey towers with a variety of features, a shopping gallery, four floors for car parking and another ten for offices, with a wide view of Maputo Bay and the entire downtown area of the capital.
It is in this unprecedented setting that creatives and thinkers will be involved in the dynamics and concept of the festival, which revolves around the dilemmas of contemporaneity, the ‘Anthropocene’, the relationship between man and nature from different perspectives.
Exhibitions and installations that put art, architecture, technology and various creative possibilities into dialogue; learning and reflection circles around themes such as intellectual property, recycling, ecology, decolonialism and democracy, make this edition a platform where possible and probable local futures in the global context, taking into account all past and contemporary experiences, will be reflected on by uniting the boundaries between proven knowledge and the experimental and alternative.
