Every year, the African Film Festival features the voices of emerging artists from the African diaspora. In this year's selection of short narratives by women, Cameroon filmmaker Eka Christa Assam takes a quirky look at gender roles in Beleh, her short film centered on a disgruntled married couple. The Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi-Omari grew up in Kenya, and lives in New York. Her short The Market King chronicles the travails of a father who takes his daughter to get her hair braided. In Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania's humorous recent film, a young girl goes to great lengths to avoid Koran school.