Zimbabwe, The Future of the Land
Zimbabwe is embroiled in turmoil. The economy has hit rock bottom, veterans of the liberation struggle are pitted against commercial white farmers in a bitter land struggle, HIV infection rates …
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Mixing Impossible Genres
(Excerpt of originally published article) David Achkar’s 1991 film Allah Tantou [God’s Will] contains autobiographical, biographical and historical (both national and international) layers and first, second and third-person narratives. Documentary …
2003 Festival
2003 Statement
This year, the African Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary by presenting an extraordinary collection of films from the African continent. The selected films have set trends for artistic and …
“Working closer to the people”
Olivier Barlet: According to you, what is important for African cinema today? Idrissa Ouédraogo: There are two aspects to it — the creators that make films on the continent in …
Do not sleep with bitterness
Mamadou Niang: Was Thomas Sankara your first film? Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda: No, in fact, I did two films prior to Sankara: the second, Ten Thousand Years of Cinema with Djibril Diop …
Special Focus on Africa Featured at the 23rd Banff Television Festival
Africa will be a prominent theme this year at the 23rd annual Banff Television Festival, June 9 to 14, 2002. Inspired by the placement of Africa at the heart of …
7th National Traveling Series
Denying Brazil
The documentary, Denying Brazil, is a plain-speaking and fascinating unmasking of the white racism endemic in Brazilian television’s most popular genre, which in the USA we would call the soap …
2002 Festival
2002 Statement
Africa in the World The African terrain, regarded as the origin of human development, is now contested, caught between the demands of global capitalism and those of local traditions. As …
Karmen Gei: Political Sex Icon
The Hollywood film industry helps create a lexicon of concepts and images used to define a woman’s sexual power. In America, this multibillion dollar industry encourages the use of exercise, …
2001 Zanzibar International Film Festival
The Islands are now home to the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), part of The Festival of the Dhow Countries, now in its fourth year. The festival, arguably the largest …
2001 Zanzibar International Film Festival Program
FEATURE FILMS Golden Dhow Sandstorm Director: Jag Mohan (India) Based on the true story of a low-caste potter woman who begins working for the government’s Saathin (women’s rights) programme. She …
6th National Traveling Series
“Shaking Up The Box: A Decade of ITVS”
This year’s presentation by The Independent Television Service (ITVS) included a series called Women’s Tales from Modern Africa. Produced by Simon Bright (A Winstar Cinema Release of a Zimmedia Production, …
Review of “Faat Kine”
Like Borom Sarret, Black Girl, The Money Order, and Xala, Ousmane Sembene’s latest release is another chapter in the writer-director’s laser-sharp commentary of post-independence in Senegal. Faat Kine brings the …
Video Awudjo!
By devoting a festival to popular African video films, the NYAFF is moving in a new direction. Larkin samples two of our selections and reviews the surrounding controversy. Introduction | …
Reflections on FESPACO 2001
Every two years for the last thirty two years, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso becomes for one special week, the capital of African cinema when it plays host to FESPACO, The Festival …
2001 Festival
2001 Statement
The seventh installment of the New York African Film Festival is proud to present a groundbreaking program of video films from Nigeria and Ghana, entitled “Video Awudjo!” (Yoruba for stew). …
FESPACO 17: “Cinema and New Technology” Program
The cinema sector and, more generally, the audiovisual must almost permanently be reorganizing its modes and means of production because of the fast and outstanding progress in information, image and …
AFF Joins Friends of Liberty Hall and The Bob Marley Foundation
The New York African Film Festival’s 5th Annual African Mini “Video” Film Festival, on December 2, 2000, was held again, at the Bob Marley Theatre in association with a newly …
Pan African Film Festival II
SCREENINGS Ten films, including features and documentaries and eleven videos were screened during the course of the festival. This year’s festival selection highlighted works from Portuguese-speaking African countries and works …
The Orbit of “Planet Africa”
This year’s program is an electric mix of twelve features and seven short films from seventeen different countries, with eight features making their world or North American premieres. “Planet Africa” …
The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous
Notes for the Cultural Historian of Film An act of social historiography which addresses cinema aims to calculate the importance of films within a world larger than film. Since the …
Something Ventured
15 July 2000 I was on my way home via the A train to Brooklyn feeling kind of drained. Maybe it was from the good cry I had had at …
5th National Traveling Series
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet, Life of the Image
Through the starkness of Peck’s iconic choices and the poetic character of the voiceover, we are moved to a certain comprehension of the incommensurable. Raoul Peck occupies a liminal space …
2000 Festival
2000 Statement
As we begin the twenty-first century, we are witnessing a great revolution in media and communication capabilities that is drastically reducing the distances between cultures. Images, sounds, and ideas are …
4th National Traveling Series
1999 Festival
1999 Statement
For half a century, African nations have constructed modern identities from traditional and colonial experiences. For half a decade, The New York African Film Festival has bridged the divide between …
Ramadan Suleman’s “Fools”
In the last decade, anti-apartheid films with South Africa as a backdrop, have generally been English language, Hollywood productions, with white protagonists, often played by big-name Hollywood actors. The narrative …
3rd National Traveling Series
1998 Festival
1998 Statement
Since 1993, the New York African Film Festival has been the most effective means of placing Africa in the heart and imagination of a broadly defined public. The cinema cultivates …
New Wave / Old Wave
African cinema has been around for forty years now. Most of the early films were either idealized portraits of a pre-colonial Africa, anti-colonial political tracts, or transitional stories about the …
1996 Statement
In April 1993 the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the African Film Festival, Inc., and The Brooklyn Museum presented Modern Days, Ancient Nights: 30 Years of African Filmmaking, a comprehensive …