African Moot (film)

African Moot
Directed byShameela Seedat
Production
companies
Generation Africa
Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS)
Undercurrent Film & Television
Tuffi Films
Release date
  • May 2022 (2022-05)
Running time
83 minutes
CountriesSouth Africa
Finland
LanguagesEnglish
French
Portuguese
Swahili

African Moot is a 2022 South African documentary film written and directed by lawyer turned filmmaker Shameela Seedat. The film is based on a set of aspiring lawyers who compete in the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition by representing the top law schools from their respective nations and they turn up for the event which is held in Gaborone, Botswana for a duration of one week at the African Court of Human Rights where social topics are taken up for debates which are deemed as fictional court cases. According to The Africa Report, it was ranked among top ten most notable African films of 2022.