Director: Pascale Kouassigan.
In Diafarabe, a village of the Macina region in Mali, a lavish Fula festival takes place at the same
time every year to honour the poet-herdsmen and their cattle returning from transhumance to
the vast Sahel plain. This is a unique moment when tales from time immemorial mingle with sung poems,
while the herdsmen’s and their cattle’s bodies seem to have been seized by the same kind of vertigo.
Eleven Feature Narratives, Including US and World Premieres,
Contend for $15,000 New
Directors Prize
San Francisco, CA – The
54th San Francisco International Film
Festival (April 21–May 5) will
award close to $100,000 in total prizes this year. The New Directors Prize of $15,000 is given to a narrative first
feature that exhibits a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as
wide an audience as possible. Seventeen countries contributed to the production...
At the Fespaco film festival in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou,
opening ceremonies are wrapping up and the focus is now on the films
and filmmakers. But attention has turned first of all to the late
Senegalese director Sembène Ousmane, who is being remembered at this
year's event.
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The Middle East International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi (MEIFF) unveils its international star-studded guest line-up at the Opening Night Gala, featuring Joe Wright’s critically acclaimed international film, ATONEMENT, and a spectacular after-party on October 14, 2007. Celebrated choreographer Otis Sallid will be producing the Opening and Closing Night presentations.From Bollywood…An impressive all-star Bollywood line-up ensures that MEIFF asserts itself as a major force in the international ...
The President, the Committee and the Director of the Fribourg International Film Festival announce the engagement of film critic Edouard Waintrop as programmer for the 2008 edition. He will officially take office at the beginning of September 2007. Edouard Waintrop:Born June 3, 1952 in Suresnes, Hauts de Seine, France.After studies in economics, he worked for six years (from 1974 to 1980) in the socio-cultural sector as head of cinematographic and jazz programming in Montreuil, in the Paris subu...
The 12th Annual New York African Film Festival April 20th through April 28th, 2005The African Film Festival, Inc. has just opened the Twelfth New York African Film Festival, which will showcase 24 films from 12 countries, including a number of whose national cinema are mostly unknown to US audiences, such as Niger, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Angola and Mozambique. The astonishing variety of themes and styles presented in this year’s program are indicative of the diversity of Africa, reflecting the poet...
