Fespaco 2023 – Stéphanie Tum, Irene Nangi and Eystein Dingha Young speak of « The Planter’s Plantation »
The Cameroonian filmmaker was presenting his film The Planter’s Plantation in the official competition at the Fespaco 2023. He was invited, with his actresses, to speak in English about his film for the press and the professionals the next day during a Q&A. Light summary (Translation into French to read here). Annick Kandolo: The Planter’s Plantation is a fiction film in competition directed by Eystein Dingha Young, a...
Fespaco 2023: Ery Claver about « Our Lady of the Chinese Shop »
The angolan filmmaker was presenting his film Our Lady of th Chinese Shop in the official competition at the Fespaco 2023. He was invited to speak in english about his film for the press and the professionals the next day during a Q&A. Light summary. Annick Kandolo We have the pleasure to welcome Ery Claver from Angola. Ery Claver was a camera man who started on TV productions and documentaries. Since 2013, he is part of the...
Interview with Jessica Beshir on Faya Dayi
Olivier Barlet : Faya Dayi is a very labyrinthical film, a kind of mosaic, a kaleidoscope. How did you construct such a film? Jessica Beshir : Everything was a process. It took about 10 years for me to finish this film, from the inception of it. I grew up in Harar but returning after a long time required me to learn about the place again. I interviewed so many people. I interviewed scholars from Haramaya University which is the...
Visages de femmes, de Désiré Ecaré (1985): Feliz indocilidad
Estrenada en Francia el 23 de Ferrero de 2022 en una versión restaurada en 4K, rodada en 16 mm en 1973 y 1983, Visages de femmes es la tercera y última película del director marfileño Désiré Ecaré (fallecido a los 69 años en 2009). En la continuidad estética e irónica de Concerto pour un exil y A nous deux France ! que él mismo resume con “castigat ridendo mores” (corregir la moral riendo), el adagio latino retomado por Molière y la...
Cines del África francófona subsahariana (1926-1980), por Claude Forest
Una obra histórica bienvenida y esencial Las posiciones adoptadas, al igual que los escritos críticos o los libros sobre los cines africanos, están muy a menudo contaminadas por una multitud de inexactitudes sobre los intereses que históricamente han intervenido en la difusión del cine en África: El impresionante y minucioso trabajo de Claude Forest restablece los hechos sin por ello poner fin al debate postcolonial. (texto original...
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