55th Berlin Film Festival Focuses on Africa
The 55th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival was special to me in the sense that it not only focused on Africa and an African film won the Golden …
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2005 Festival
2005 Statement
The twelfth edition of the New York African Film Festival will showcase 24 films from 12 countries, including a number whose national cinema are mostly unknown to US audiences, such …
News Clipping: 2005
Screenings of the AFF Traveling Series at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston coincide with a major exhibition entitled African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection. The …
Max and Mona
Max and Mona is a post-apartheid South African comedy. Set in and around the country’s industrial capital Johannesburg, it revolves around young Max Bua (Mpho Lovingo) the village mourner of …
The 2004 Dhow Awards
The competition for the Dhow awards was stiff and it captured the mood and spirit of the Festival. FEATURE FILMS Golden Dhow Maargam Directed by Rajiv Vijay India, 2003, 108 …
Madame Brouette: A Film by Moussa Sene Absa
I’ve always been very attracted to films made in Senegal, probably because I have been there, exploring Dakar’s neighborhoods. I have sat with women around the dancing circle in Medina. …
Be Kunko
Shot in video, in the style of a news report, Be Kunko begins with the arrival of refugees in a UN camp. But very quickly, the narrative becomes more fictional …
ZIFF: Integrating the Region through Art and Culture
From its humble beginnings in 1998, the Zanzibar International Film Festival of the Dhow Countries (ZIFF) has grown in leaps and bounds to be a grand and momentous event for arts …
9th National Traveling Series
From Russia, With Love
My interest in African cinema began when I was a student of film history at the VGIK film school in Moscow. Films by a number of great African filmmakers including …
2004 Festival
Universal Refugees
Oliver Barlet: The film is insisting on the fact that the UN-managed refugee camp remains a no-go area, inaccessible to the police where juvenile delinquents cannot be caught. Cheick Fantamady …
Through African Eyes: Dialogues with the Director Abderrahmane Sissako
If I try to explain the decision I made one day to become a filmmaker, I must go back to that period in my life where I felt at a …
Diaries from an African Film Addict
Hi, my name is Rumbidzai Bwerinofa, and I am an African film addict. How big an addict? Well, I live in Brooklyn, I am one of the laziest folks you …
8th National Traveling Series
Immediate Experience: About The Panelists of The African Film Festival
The broad issues of production, marketing, international distribution, and the urgency and objectives of Black representation in the media find definition in the professional and personal experiences of the panelists. …
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 …
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 …