Africultures Dossier: FESPACO 2019: Moving Toward Resurrection

• Published in: Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 407 - 423
• Main Author: Barlet, Olivier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 01.10.2019
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Allouache, Merzak (1944- ); Children; Motion picture festivals; Pan-Africanism; Morocco; France; Sudan
• ISSN: 1536-3155; 1947-4237
• DOI: 10.2979/blackcamera.11.1.23

Yet a growing number of free, open-air screenings in Ouagadougou's neighborhoods and in nine cities in Burkina Faso have been established, thanks to the organization Cinéma numérique ambulant (Traveling Digital Cinema, in English), with the hope of reestablishing the festival's widespread success. [...]programming is concerned with balance and diversity. Notably, from Algeria: En attendant les hirondelles / Until the Birds Return (dir. Karim Moussaoui, 2017), Les Bienheureux / The Blessed (dir. Sofia Djama, 2017), Revolution Zendj / Zendj Revolution (dir. Tariq Teguia, 2013), Vent divin / Divine Wind (dir. Merzak Allouache, 2018); from Egypt: Yomeddine (dir. Abu Bakr Shawky, 2018), Sheikh Jackson (dir. Amr Salama, 2017), Les Derniers jours dune ville / The Last Days of a City (dir. Tamer El Said, 2016); from Morocco: Sofia (dir. Meryem Benm'Barek-Alo'isi, 2018), Volubilis (dir. Faouzi Bensa'idi, 2017), Headbang Lullaby (dir. Hicham Lasri, 2017), or Jahilya (dir. Hicham Lasri, 2018); from Mozambique: Convoi de sel et de sucre / The Train of Salt and Sugar (dir. Licínio Azevedo, 2016)); from Chad: Une saison en France / A Season in France (dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2017); and from Tunisia: Vent du nord / North Wind (dir. Walid Mattar, 2017), The Last of Us (dir. Ala Eddine Slim, 2016), Mon cher enfant / Dear Child (dir. Mohamed Ben Attia, 2018). Sedufia, studied at the NAFTI, the excellent film school based in Accra, where he rallied his fellow students to act in and provide technical support for the film.