Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, Reader in Film Practice and Theory at the University, will screen ‘Flora and Dambudzo’ at an event entitled Documenting Africa: Creating Fact or Fiction through the Lens, which takes place at the University of Westminster.

Produced in collaboration with Zimbabwean filmmaker Joe Njagu, the film is co-written by and stars Ery Nzaramba, an acclaimed African actor who lives in London.

Dr Piotrowska’s nine-minute screening, part of a feature film being shot in Zimbabwe in 2015, depicts a secretive relationship between German scholar Flora Veit-Wild and acclaimed Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera.

Having met in the 1980s in Harare, they became close friends until Dambudzo’s death from AIDS in 1987. It is the first time that Flora has revealed this part of her relationship with Dambudzo.

Alongside African directors Khalo Matabane and Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Dr Piotrowska will also present a talk at this weekend’s festival, discussing the relationship between fact and fiction in film.

Course Leader for the MA in Creative Digital Film Production at Bedfordshire, Dr Piotrowska recently won a competition at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival.