Where will the flagship meetings of African cultures take place in digital form or face to face in March? Here are eleven suggestions. Do not hesitate to send us your “essentials” to fipageculture@yahoo.fr.
The New African Film Festival of Washington DC celebrates its 17th online edition, expanded to audiences across the United States, with a selection of 33 films from 26 countries on the African continent and the diaspora.
From 1 to 18 April, the program, supported by the American Film Institute (AFI), the Africa World Now Project and the African Café This is not a funeral, it’s a resurrection, among others by director Lemohang Jeremiah Moses (Lesotho), our favorite for Mostra 2020 Zanka Contact, from the Moroccan director Ismaël Iraki, The Milkmaid, from Desmond Ovbiagele (Nigeria) and the restored cult film by Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir, Camera d’Afrique.
Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, one of Algerian artists and most productive Arabs in the 20th century are until July 31 in the spotlight Sharjah Art Museum. Under the theme Lasting Impressions, the exhibition in this city in the United Arab Emirates presents 70 works from several periods by the painter.
Africa is also found in 43rd Créteil International Women’s Film Festival (April 2-11). Among the films published online, French-Algerian-Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem shows her documentary Their Algeria, which questions her grandparents Aïcha and Mabrouk’s long journey into exile and silence. Tunisian filmmaker Raja Amary presents the premiere of his film about the engagement of a young woman in Tunisia, Ghofrane and promises of spring.
The artist Romeo Mivekannin benefits from a major exhibition (from April 2 to June 5) in Cécile Fakhoury’s Dakar Gallery under the theme Black Hosts, a title borrowed from the collection of poems written by Léopold Séar Senghor in 1948. Mivekannin, new African artist in the art market, born 1986 in Bouaké (Ivory Coast), now lives and works between Toulouse (France) and Cotonou (Benin). In his gallery in Abidjan, Fakhoury presents until June 12 the exhibition Heritage of the Ivorian artist Jems Koko Bi. The artist, who lives and works between Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Essen (Germany), explores themes of identity and heritage through a group of unpublished works.
Angers Festival of African Cinemas and Cultures does not give up sharing his curiosity with us and offers between April 6 and 10 a special program and online discussions about African films. In an original way, everyone can become their own programmer and meet a group of 8 to 10 people, “together with a resource person who informs them about the works and their context”. Among the planned feature films: Aza Kivy (“Let’s Not Give Up”) by Madagascar director Lova Nantenaina and Eyimofé (Nigeria), by Chuko and Arie Esiri.
The 37th International Film Festival View of Africa will take place April 9-28 in Montreal, Que. This second digital edition sees itself as a reference organization for information and dissemination of cultural productions about Africa, Creole countries and their diasporas.
April 13 at de Baecque and partners It will sell modern African art that shows the beauty and richness of African art. In addition to works by established artists such as Romuald Hazoumè, there will also be artists to discover, such as the Congolese photographer Rachel Malaika or the Protean Burkinabè artist Kader Kabouré.
On April 14, the Quai Branly Museum presents in an online version as part of Popular University organized by the magazine Something We Africans Got. a debate on “Design” and “African aesthetics” to better understand the development of design in Africa. With artist and designer Jean Servais Somian and Aurélien Gaborit, director of Africa’s collections at the Quai Branly Museum.
On April 14, Christie’s Paris will auction several works by Egyptian artists, brother and sister Mohammed and Effat Naghi. “This is an excellent first for Christie’s Paris auction of Impressionism and Modern Art.” Mohamed Naghi, an Egyptian diplomat, was – thanks to his many travels to Europe – the core of the artistic and cultural revolutions of the early 20th century and founded in 1935 “Atelier d’Alexandrie”.
The Oscars will be presented on April 25 at a face-to-face ceremony, but in several locations in Los Angeles. The Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania is still in contention for best foreign film with the man who sold his skin. Thus, for the first time in the history of Tunisian film, it offers its country a presence on the final list of Oscar nominations.
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