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Screening rooms make new skin for the 28th Edition of the African Film Biennial.
Two days before the event and under the leadership of the Organizing Committee, managers of screening rooms put on a big spread for a successful festival . The halls of Ciné Burkina, Ciné Nerwaya, Canal Olympia Yennenga, Canal Olympia Idrissa Ouédraogo, the central...
FESPACO 2023: “Everything is in order”, says the Organizing Committee
The Organizing Committee of the 28th Edition of FESPACO provided an update of the preparations 72 hours before official opening. Everything is in order for FESPACO 2023 to open on Saturday 25 February 2023 in the presence of Head of State Ibrahim Traoré. The opening...
Artistic Stages, 111 Artists to Perform
The two artistic stages set up for the event will meet all expectations according to the President of the Ceremonies and Entertainment Commission. Artistic stages have always played a major role in FESPACO's organization as they help brighten up nights after...
More innovations, the Headquarters takes on a new face.
FESPACO 2023 includes innovative touches that give a new shine to the Headquarters with names of the various winners of the Etalon de Yennenga opening the steps to you at the FESTIVAL Office. Vice-President of Communication and Publications Commission Gervais HIEN...
Our lady of the Chinese shop
Synopsis When a Chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend. This delicate urban tale...
Or de vie
Synopsis In Burkina Faso, in the gold panning site of Kalgouli, 16 years old Rasmané goes down to more than 100 meters in artisanal mines for gold. Worried by potential accidents, torn by his parents’ doubts, Rasmané makes his way through this fierce adult world...
L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA
Synopsis 1960 marks the end of empires on the African continent. France disappears from the map leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, the currency still in use in almost all of its former territories in Sub-Sahara Africa. Why is it that these States...
Je reste photographe
Synopsis A young photographer inherits his elder’s trunk of negatives. Cross-portrait of Paul Kodjo, one of the most influential photographers of post-colonial Côte d’Ivoire, and Ananias Léki Dago, a contemporary Ivorian photographer. Biofilmography Ananias Léki Dago...
Gardien des mondes
Synopsis One day, at the foot of a tomb, Hassan fell asleep and never left the cemetery. For 40 years, he has made his home in the hills of Jellaz in Tunisia, watching over the dead and observing the living. In search of love and freedom, Hassan navigates between day...
Doxandem, the dream chasers
Synopsis Back in Gandiol, his hometown in Senegal, after eight years as a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his community. With help from his wife Laura and ubder the benevolent eye of Yaaye Khadi, Mamadou’s mother, he begins to build and...
All The Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Bambino and Bawa develop feelings for each other while riding through Lagos to take pictures for a photo competition. Bambino pushes back, unsure of himself, his identity, or what to make of everything. Bawa on the other hand believes that, the fact that he’s feeling...
Mother Just a Smile
Synopsis A deceased mother is not dead; she lives in the blowing wind, in the rising tide of a full moon night. In order to grieve and properly say goodbye to her love ones, Isabel Cardoso 71, decides to share with her late mother, deceased over 30 years earlier,...
Louvri pou mwen
Synopsis LOUVRI POU MWEN, which means "Open for Me" in Haitian Creole is a short film that tells the intimate stories of two young women from neighborhoods at conflict in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the enduring plight for peace despite their own physical and mental...
Kelasi
Synopsis Kelasi is a historical, political and artistic wander around the congolese educationnal system, through years. Tainted by politics will, by the State Party MPR and masses manipulation. With multiple animation techniques, the short film tells through tracking...
Katanga Nation
SynopsisKatanga is a bustling district of Addis Ababa where many locals dream of making it big in the capital. Enkehone, a street vendor from the countryside, lives in Amele Mamo's makeshift hostel. Both are part of this struggling community on the brink of...
Cuba in Africa
Synopsis The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa. Biography Ethiopian-American filmmaker and educational technology consultant. Founder of RISystems...
Burkina Babes
Synopsis A filmmaker visited Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso and did not only got inspired by the aesthetics of motorbikes and bicycles that gave the city a unique cultural beauty, he also discovers through his lens that there was something appealing...
TSUTSUE
Synopsis Alone in a local landfill site that borders the Atlantic, two fisherman’s sons engage in a friendly game of hide and seek until the youngest of the two stumbles upon a horrific sight: the corpse of a young man washed up along the shore. Believing it to be his...
Trame de Tendresse
Synopsis La routine de la vie quotidienne entre Radia et sa mère engendre un malaise affreux et devient un obstacle majeur pour l’avenir émotionnel de Radia et sa relation avec sa mère. Cette monotonie provoquera donc un clivage imprévu. Biofilmographie La cinéaste et...
Mulika
Synopsis Un 'afronaute' surgit de l’épave d’un vaisseau spatial dans le cratère volcanique du mont Nyiragongo. Alors qu’il descend dans la ville en contrebas, rencontrant les habitants de l’actuel Gomas, il commence à comprendre ce qu’il doit faire pour changer...