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Hafsia Herzi tenderly revives her “good mother”
Before becoming Abdellatif Kechiche's favorite actress, Hafsia Herzi was the daughter of a cleaning lady. With "Bonne Mère", she pays tribute to the brave mother without a man whom he raised in the northern districts of Marseille. This is also where the director returned to shoot this very true story, both touching and universal, which will be released on Wednesday 21 July in theaters in France.…
“Neptune Frost”, the favourite of the competition for
What is left at the end of a festival? Award-winning films, Palme d'Or and then love. "Neptune Frost", directed by the American Saul Williams and the French woman of Rwandan origin Anisia Uzeyman, was the most curious, generous and innovative proposal for this film festival in Cannes 2021. It is the story of a war that does not say without name and a love between an African hacker and a coltan miner on…
“Business as usual can no longer continue”: Meet
For seven months, Indonesian activist Melati Wijsen went on an epic journey around the world with French author Flore Vasseur to meet young activists fighting for climate and social justice. She spoke to FRANCE 24 about their travels and the passion that drives her activist comrades.
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“Lingui”, a feminist tale by the Chadian director
The most feminist film to date in competition at the Cannes Film Festival has been directed by an African man. In Lingui, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun questions the links and values that are considered sacred in a patriarchal society like Chad: the absolute ban on abortion, the excision of girls and the submission of women. The Chadian filmmaker manages to turn a tragic story into an optimistic utopia thanks…
Chadian Mahamat Saleh Haroun, a filmmaker
Mahamat Saleh Haroun is undoubtedly a personality in Chadian culture. His film "A Screaming Man" is the first film by a Chadian filmmaker to be selected in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. And above all, he won the jury prize. Since then, this prolific filmmaker has made a series of nominations in Venice as well as in Cannes. This year, his film "Lingui" is competing in the…
Africa presents via six movies
The Cannes Film Festival, the largest film festival in the world, opened its doors on Tuesday night. The world of the 7th art is breathing again, after a canceled 2020 edition and the 2021 edition moved from May to July. We turn our spotlight on Africa's ambassadors. And this year, the continent is better represented than usual.…
officially the 27th Burkinabè Film Festival
In Dakar, an official ceremony took place on Tuesday, June 29 to launch the next Fespaco, which will take place from October 16 to 23 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Senegal is the guest of honor at the 27th edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival. Originally scheduled for February, this major cultural event has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.…
Nigeria: the future of Kannywood partly via
In the 90's, a powerful film industry was born in Nigeria: it is Nollywood, a market that soon surpassed it in Hollywood in the United States. If this story is famous, however, many ignore that another film industry also developed at the same time in the northern part of the country. And more specifically in the large Muslim city of Kano.…
Africa in the spotlight at the biggest festival in
"We find the atmosphere at the festival again. We live again." Annecy is proudly portrayed as "the first major international cultural event to welcome the public" (without a health pass) in postpartum France.
From 14 to 19 June, the world animated film capital will present more than 200 short and feature films on site, "an exceptional vintage" and "the best of African animation" in the form of a tribute. Interview with Mickaël Marin, Director of the Festival, Film Market and Cité de l'image en mouvement in Annecy (Citia).…