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Interview with Jean-Marie Teno
Born in 1954, in Famleng, Cameroon, Jean-Marie Teno studied communication at the University of Valenciennes. Since graduating in 1984 with a degree in filmmaking, he has been living and working in France. Directing both documentary and fiction, Teno frequently shoots …
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- Life is not a spectacle – A Screaming Man by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (2010)
- By Katarina Hedrén
Beware of crossing your arms over your chest, assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, because life is not a spectacle, a sea of pain is not a proscenium, and a screaming man is not a dancing bear. (Excerpt from …
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- THE WOMAN IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CINEMA: PROTAGONISM AND REPRESENTATION
- By Beatriz Leal Riesco
“Clearly, African cinema, too, like African political leadership, cannot hope to advance without the presence of women on the scene…. Sembène was considered a significant feminist… But even his films will not be satisfactory… until we have affirmative action in …
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- THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN AFRICAN CINEMA
- By Beatriz Leal Riesco
Even today, an analysis of the complex role of music in film is often forgotten by critics, many of whom remain prostrate before the dictatorship of the image. Yet as a manifestation of culture, music has a privileged position with …
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- THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADES: Across the Indian Ocean
- By Anonymous
The lost memory of enslavement of Africans to the Arab world dominated the panel discussions that followed the screenings of The African Slave Trades: Across the Indian Ocean. The film’s narrator, Nigerian writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, said that …
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