2025 European Film Festival in Eswatini

Film lovers came in their numbers on 29 August 2025 to watch an exciting Irish movie, Dating Amber, which marked the start of this year’s edition of the European Film Festival - a Team Europe effort featuring the European Union (EU) Delegation to Eswatini in partnership with Alliance Francaise and seven EU Member States (Austria, Cyprus, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy and Sweden), all accredited to Eswatini.

During this screening held at Movie Zone at Ezulwini, the crowd was kept spellbound throughout this youth inspired movie. 

Also present during the screening was EU Ambassador to Eswatini, Karsten Mecklenburg, who welcomed the attendees, Irish Charge d’Affaires, Aileen O’Donovan, who introduced the Irish film and UK High Commissioner to Eswatini, Colin Wells. 

The festival will continue on 18 – 21 September 2025 in Mbabane, with movie screenings at Mbabane Theatre Club and Alliance Francaise. 

One of the films to look forward to is Swedish movie, I am Zlatan, a film about Swedish football superstar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a highly-decorated centre forward who, during his active career, played for top European soccer teams such as Ajax Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan (all Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) (France) and Manchester United (UK), accumulating over 560 goals for both club and country until 2023 when he retired. This movie will be shown on 20 September at Alliance Francaise in Mbabane.