International Day of Sport for Development and Peace : African Women Make Sports Movies

African Women Make Sports Movies

The African Women in Cinema Blog celebrates the 2026 International Day of Sport for Development and Peace which spotlights the theme “Sport: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers,” underscoring sport’s unique capacity to foster connection, inclusion, and peace in an increasingly fragmented world.

The empowering experience of sports in the lives of African girls and women has been the focus of a number of films by African women in the past decade.

Representations of African girls and women athletes may also serve as a means to educate the public about the accomplishments of girls and women in sports that are generally male-dominated, such as weight-lifting and boxing.

A selection of relevant links from the African Women in Cinema Blog highlighting African women's storytelling through sports:

Boxing. Iman Djionne: La Boxeuse | Boxing Girl
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/02/festival-films-femmes-afrique-2020_17.html
 

Boxing. Jessie Chisi: Between Rings
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/09/jessie-chisi-talks-about-between-rings.html
 

Soccer. Naziha Arebi: Freedom Fields
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/09/naziha-arebi-freedom-fields-afrika-film.html
 

Soccer. Florence Bamba: Numero 10
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/01/recent-films-florence-bamba-numero-10.html
 

Soccer. Florence Ayisi: Soccer Queens
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2010/06/florence-ayisis-soccer-queens.html
 

Soccer. Marwa Zein: Oufsaiyed Elkhortoum | Khartoum Offside
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/01/oufsaiyed-elkhortoum-khartoum-offside.html
 

Weightlifting. Mayye Zayed: Ash Ya Captain | Lift Like a Girl
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/08/mayye-zayed-ash-ya-captain-lift-like.html
 

Motorcycling. Joan Kabugu: Throttle Queens
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/joan-kabugu-throttle-queens.html
 

Running. Amleset Muchie
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/02/nyaff-2021-amleset-muchie.html
 

Women and girls' empowerment
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/06/african-women-make-soccer-movies.html
 

Differently-abled - Child Soldiers
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/11/world-premiere-flying-stars-by-ngardy.html
 

Resistance - Revolution
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/09/rama-thiaw-young-filmmaker-in-struggle.html
 

Deaf culture
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/01/yveline-nathalie-pontalier-lance-une.html
 

Conflict resolution
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/02/fespaco-2013-rumbi-katedza-team-l.html
 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog : Visualizing Herstories: Towards an Introduction to African Women Cinema Studies

 

Women's History Month

at the African Women in Cinema Blog

 

Visualizing Herstories: Towards an Introduction to African Women Cinema Studies

Beti Ellerson ©2004

Since its publication in 2004, I have deepened, expanded and strengthened the arguments, ideas and concepts that were introduced. The Blog provides an invaluable resource to explore the ongoing developments relevant to the research and study of African women in cinema.

 

 

Introduction

As a general introduction to African Women Cinema Studies, the text examines African women's cinematic practices, African women as cultural readers within the cinema arena both in front of and behind the camera, and in front of the screen as critic and audience. The essay explores the following questions: In what ways do African women use "cinema"? What are their commonalities and differences? Is there an emergence of film criticism practices by African women indicative of African realities? How are African women going beyond dominant gazes (masculinist, white feminist, western) to visualize the specificities of Africa and its extended boundaries? What are African women's experiences in cinema?

The broad categories for examination are: the contextualization of African women's cinema within African filmmaking; women's voices and cinematic practices; women's stories, experiences and realities; theoretical and critical practices of interpretation; thematic approaches to African women's cinematic practices; women organizing and working together.

The essay provides the groundwork for readers from the diverse disciplines of African Studies, Women Studies, and Cinema Studies to appreciate the myriad aspects of African women in the cinema and their evolution in this domain. It explores the various political, social and cultural contexts of African women in the audio-visual media, examines current discourse on gender and cinema and its role in cultural policy development, and analyzes the various networks that contribute to women's expanding roles in the cinema.  In the process, the reader will be exposed to theoretical questions and criticism by African women that probe the issues of identity, subjectivity, the body, and positioning; and critical perspectives that consider how African women's contributions in the cinema through pedagogy for mass communication and consciousness-raising are directly related to African development. Likewise, the essay looks at African women's cinemas as an "alternative discourse", as another way of experiencing cinema outside western and masculinist hegemony. One of its goals is to contribute to the ongoing dialogue in the areas of Women Studies and World Cinema.

Read Visualizing Herstories: Towards an Introduction to African Women Cinema Studies in its entirety at the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema:

https://africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Visualizing_Herstories.html 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog - African Women in Cinema: Stories of Home

 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog 

African Women in Cinema: Stories of Home

 "I say home is where my mother is"--Akuol Garang de Mabior

The notion of home for many transnational African women of the screen is fluid or situational, an experience that is best described by James Baldwin, the renowned expatriate writer: “you take your home with you. You’d better. Otherwise you're homeless”. 

For Women’s History Month, the African Women in Cinema Blog presents a selection of articles exploring the notion of home.

Akuol de Mabior: No Simple Way Home https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/01/akuol-de-mabior-berlinale-2022.html

Ghanaian-German Jacqueline Nsiah’s digital Sankofa storytelling experience and other diasporic journeys 

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/10/ghanaian-german-jacqueline-nsiahs.html

Karima Saïdi : Dans la maison | A Way Home https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/artetv-karima-saidi-dans-la-maison-way.html

Iman Kamel: Beit Sha'ar (Nomad's Home) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/iman-kamel-beit-shaar-nomads-home.html

Hachimiya Ahamada: Dreams from the Comoros https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/12/hachimiya-ahamada-dreams-from-comoros.html

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog commemorates the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog commemorates the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans was one of the gravest crimes in history. Millions of men, women and children were violently taken from their homes, denied their humanity, and forced to endure generations of exploitation. The racist ideologies that justified this crime became embedded in institutions and societies, shaping inequalities that continue today—The United Nations.

25 March 2026: UN passes resolution naming slave trade ‘gravest crime against humanity’

As we commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade I return to an interview with Shirikiana Aina in 1997, she talked to me about her film Through the Door of No Return. A journey in her father's footsteps, as well as the journey of her ancestors and of present African diasporans.  She talks about her feelings as she tells a story through film, keeping a certain vision, a certain perspective, and at the same time as she undergoes a very deep, emotional journey. Through the Door of No Return was inspired by her experience with Sankofa, the acclaimed film directed by her husband, Haile Gerima, and of which she is the co-producer.

African Women in Cinema Collection

In this film, I go on a personal journey…I use my father's experience as sort of a bridge to get me there, as a child of Africa in the Diaspora looking for her roots or a re-connect. My father traveled to Africa when I was about seventeen and apparently was trying to move to Ghana.  Unfortunately, he contracted malaria.  It was fatal, and when he came back, he died. I was a budding adult, but we never had a chance to synthesize or pass on some of the things he gained by himself going on that journey. He was the child of a sharecropper.  He moved to the North and was involved in whatever industry was available to him.  And for him to make that leap to Africa in his lifetime was quite significant.  So, I used that as an opportunity for me to re-link to the continent.

…I wanted to go back at night the same way that we came.  I wanted to go back across the water the same way that we came.  I wanted to go back through that same door that you see in our other film, Sankofa. If you've seen that film, you've seen the dungeons and the slave forts on the coast of Ghana. In the so-called Elmina Castle, there is a very small door, so small that only one person could fit through it at a time.  You almost have to go sideways to get through this door and that is how we were exited out of that dungeon at night because the slave-traders figured that it would be the best way to sneak us out.  The surrounding residents know something is going on, they know about slavery of course, but just to keep it low key we were sent out at night.  We were sent down in these little boats and these boats would take us to the bigger ships.  By that time we had waited in these dungeons for months and months, we had watched many of our family members and other people die right next to us.  Food was almost non-existent, of course; the conditions were horrible: we were packed, no blankets.  We lived in these hellholes.  We were stored, actually, and the purpose of that storage was to wait until our numbers got high enough while waiting for the ships to come.  The ships would come once a year or however often and then they were filled up with two or three hundred of us packed even tighter.  So for me it was very significant to go back through that door because for me that was the point of departure, and it had to be the point of return, because it was the reason, it was the threshold…Those people who have not been paid tribute to, the bones of these millions and millions of people that carpet the bottom of the ocean are calling us back…

…Through the door, camera in hand, I followed the journey of my own father who went this similar process, and that helped me to make this link in finding other people's footprints, and symbolically I found his.  So that helped me to make a particular link and that was enough for me…When I was investigating all these connections it felt really interesting and symbolically important for me, his child, having taken up the profession of filmmaking, now to go back with my own camera to really pick up where he left off.  What I try to do in the film is to multiply his image with all the people I find going to Ghana who are basically doing the same thing, trying to reconnect, trying to sew back this terrible tear that history has caused between Africans in the Diaspora and Africans on the continent. The film goes on from this point to see to what extent we remember, because, as infantile as it really might be to think, "Do they remember us?" this is the horrible fact of history: it lasted four hundred years and there are concrete questions of economics, of rewriting history, that are confronting us now.  So how can we say, "Do they remember us?"  It feels like such an infantile question, but it really is at the root of a lot of our psyches, I think.

…The presence of pan-African work, the presence of people of the Diaspora in Ghana during the time of Kwame Nkrumah, for example, is what really just catapulted this whole project and I couldn't talk about W.E.B. Du Bois' influence in Ghana and the subsequent influence of independence on the continent, without talking about slavery. I just found that it was impossible. So the challenge that I faced with this camera and crew was to break down, sort of travel through this understanding. Du Bois asked to be buried at the foot of the castle, facing the ocean, the foot of a slave fort. He died in 1963, he was beyond his time; and that symbolism for the whole world is striking.  But I had to sort of do what he did.  He was at the foot of the castle, through the slave fort dungeons facing back, so he was making this human. And I had to do something similar—to look at how somebody like Kwame Nkrumah, a country boy who went to Europe to study, hooked up with George Padmore, studied Du Bois, studied Marcus Garvey, and then this group of people having the nerve to come back to Africa to liberate the whole damn place. To look at that I had to see how these men and women had the capacity to see themselves on equal planes.  Hadn't history divided them?  Hadn't history thrown them asunder?  Hadn't history said that now they were totally different kinds of human beings?  They were apparently able to cross that divide and I had to cross that divide myself. It was very important for me to do the same thing.

Through the Door of No Return (1997) by Shirikiana Aina

The above text was excerpted from an interview by Beti Ellerson published in Ecrans d’Afrique/African Screen (3rd Quarter, 1997 Nos. 21-22) under the title, “Do They Remember Us?”

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog: African women addressing mental health issues in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora

 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog

African women addressing mental health issues in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora 

A selection of articles on the African Women in Cinema Blog regarding African women addressing mental health issues in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora: 

#Alzheimers

Karima Saidi: Dans la maison | A Way Home

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/artetv-karima-saidi-dans-la-maison-way.html

#anxiety

Aisha Jama: Neefso | Breathe

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/08/recent-films-aisha-jama-neefso-breathe.html

#autism

Noelle Kenmoe: Deux avril

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/01/raising-awareness-noelle-kenmoes-deux.html

#bipolar

Ledet Muleta: Chula

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/07/producer-ledet-muleta-launches.html

#PTSD

Alice Diop: On Call

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/04/alice-diop-la-permanence-on-call.html

#PTSD

Rumba Katedza: Asylum

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/02/conversation-with-rumbi-katedza.html

 

#dementia #caregiving

Mmabatho Montsho: Desmond doesn't live here anymore

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/02/mmabatho-montsho-desmonds-not-here.html

#postpartum #depression

Nora Awolowo: Baby Blues

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/nora-awolowo-baby-blues.html

#schizophrenia

Yveline Nathalie Pontalier : Le marechalat du roi-Dieu | The Marshal of the God-king

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/02/fespaco-2013-yveline-nathalie-pontalier.html

#mentalillness

Maïmouna Ndiaye: Le fou, le génie et le sage (The crazy, the genius, the sage)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/02/fespaco-2019-le-fou-le-genie-et-le-sage.html

 

Hawa Aliou Ndiaye : Kuma!

#rehabilitation

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/02/festival-films-femmes-afrique-2020-hawa.html

 

Mai Mustafa Ekhou: It's not over yet

#storytelling

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/05/recent-films-mai-mustafa-ekhou-its-not.html

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog featuring the Black Camera African Women in Cinema Dossier

 

 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog

Featuring the Black Camera African Women in Cinema Dossier

Following is a selection of articles relevant to African women in cinema and research:

"Faire boutique": Reframing Safi Faye's Place in Petit à Petit, by Jean Rouch
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2026/01/black-camera-faire-boutique-reframing-safi-faye-petit-a-petit.html

Reading, Writing, Researching African Women in Cinema—Reflections on Sisters of the Screen-25 years and the African Women in Cinema Dossier 10 years onward by Beti Ellerson

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2025/06/black-camera-reading-writing-researching-african-women-in-cinema.html

 

Closeup: The Africas/Diasporas of Women in the Evolution of a TransAfrican Film Practice and Critical Inquiry
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2024/06/closeup-africas-diasporas-of-women-black-camera.html

“I dared to make a film”: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Safi Faye

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2023/12/safi-faye-i-dared-to-make-a-film-tribute-to-her-life-and-work.html

 

Exploring African Women’s Cinematic Practice as Womanist Work (Spring 2023)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2023/03/exploring-african-womens-cinematic-practice-womanist-work.html

La noire de..., La passante and Many Others: Framing Cinematic Representations of Afro-Descendant Women, Identity, and Positionality in France (Fall 2022)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/08/black-camera-afro-women-france-beti-ellerson.html

African Women Professionals In Cinema: Manifestos, Communiqués, Declarations, Statements, Resolutions by Beti Ellerson (Spring 2021)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/06/black-camera-african-women-manifestos.html

 

Fifty Years of Women's Engagement at FESPACO. IN Part I: Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO): Formation, Evolution, Challenges (Fall 2020)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/05/black-camera-fespaco-fifty-years-of-womens-engagement.html.html

African Women, Cinema, and Leadership: Empowerment, Mentorship, and Role-Modeling (Spring 2020)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/06/black-camera-african-women-cinema-and.html

African Women on the Film Festival Landscape: Organizing, Showcasing, Promoting, Networking (with Falila Gbadamassi) Fall 2019

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/01/black-camera-african-women-on-film.html

Safi Faye's Mossane: A Song to Women, to Beauty, to Africa (Spring 2019)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/black-camera-safi-fayes-mossane-song-to.html

African Women of the Screen as Cultural Producers: An Overview by Country  (Fall 2018) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/11/black-camera-african-women-of-screen-as.html

On-screen Narratives, Off-screen Lives: African Women Inscribing the Self (Spring 2018) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/05/black-camera-on-screen-narratives-off.html

Traveling Gazes: Glocal Imaginaries in the Transcontinental, Transnational, Exilic, Migration, and Diasporic Cinematic Experiences of African Women (Spring 2017) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/05/black-camera-spring-2017-beti-ellerson.html

African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political (Fall, 2016) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/10/african-women-and-documentary.html

Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part Two (Spring 2016) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/06/teaching-african-women-in-cinema-part.html

Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part One (Fall 2015) https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/02/teaching-african-women-in-cinema-part.html

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog celebrates Journée mondiale de l'eau (World Water Day) featuring Aïssa Maïga - Marcher sur l'eau | Above Water

 Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog celebrates Journée mondiale de l'eau (World Water Day)

featuring Aïssa Maïga Marcher sur l'eau | Above Water

Synopsis

Marcher sur l'eau a été tourné dans le nord du Niger entre 2018 et 2020 et raconte l'histoire du village de Tatiste, victime du réchauffement climatique, qui se bat pour avoir accès à l’eau par la construction d'un forage. Chaque jour, Houlaye quatorze ans, comme d’autres jeunes filles, marche des kilomètres pour aller puiser l'eau, essentielle à la vie du village. Cette tâche quotidienne les empêche, entre autres, d'être assidues à l'école. L'absence d'eau pousse également les adultes à quitter leur famille chaque année pour aller chercher au-delà des frontières les ressources nécessaires à leur survie. Pourtant, cette région recouvre dans son sous-sol un lac aquifère de plusieurs milliers de kilomètres carrés. Sous l’impulsion des habitants et par l’action de l’ONG Amman Imman un forage apporterait l’eau tant convoitée au centre du village et offrirait à tous une vie meilleure.

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Between 2028 and 2020, Aïssa Maïga went to Niger to film one of many villages that has been fallen victim to  global warming. Tehre, she followed a little girl, who, while waiting for a well to be built, must travel several kilometers for water everyday. Does access to water correlate with access to education for girls in Sub-Saharan African countries? This is another question that is raised in the film.

BIO

Aïssa Maïga est une comédienne française révélée au public avec son rôle dans Les poupées russes de Cédric Klapisch. Elle est ensuite nommée au César comme meilleur espoir féminin pour son rôle dans Bamako d’Abderrahmane Sissako. Elle est remarquée dans des comédies populaires françaises comme Il a déjà tes yeux ou Bienvenue à Marly Gomont, ou dans des drames intimistes tournés en langues étrangères. Elle a notamment été choisie pour interpréter des partitions dramatiques dans The boy who harnessed the wind, de Chiwetel Ejiofor et Taken down, de David Caffrey. En 2021, Aïssa Maïga tournera dans la série anglaise The Fear Index, le long-métrage d’Andrea Bescond et Eric Metayer, Quand tu seras grand et le film américain The man who saved Paris. Aïssa Maïga a co réalisé avec Isabelle Simeoni pour la télévision (Canal Plus) Regard Noir, un road movie documentaire tourné au Brésil, aux États-Unis et en France sur la place des femmes noires dans les fictions et les solutions pour l’inclusion de tous les talents. Marcher sur l’eau est son premier long métrage documentaire.

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Aïssa Maïga is a French actress and filmmaker.

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog: Researches in African women in cinema studies

 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog

Researches in African women in cinema studies

 

Following is a selection of articles relevant to African women in cinema and research:

Researches in African Women in Cinema Studies: Beginnings - a dossier by Beti Ellerson https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2025/01/researches-in-african-women-in-cinema-studies-beginnings.html

Researches in African Women in Cinema Studies - Discussion of the Literature
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2025/02/researches-in-african-women-in-cinema-literature.html

Building a Historiography of African Women in Cinema

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/12/building-historiography-of-african.html

Zélie Asava: mixed-race identities and representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/02/zelie-asava-mixed-raced-identities-and.html

Perspectives from Italy: María Coletti talks about her research on the representation of women in African cinema https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/06/perspectives-from-italy-maria-coletti.html

Agatha Ukata: Researching Women in Nollywood

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/11/agatha-ukata-researching-women-in.html

AFRICANA STUDIA 26 : Lutas de Mulheres no Cinema de África e do Médio Oriente | Women's Struggles in the Cinemas of Africa and the Middle East | Les luttes des femmes dans les cinémas de l’Afrique et du Moyen-Orient

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2017/11/africana-studia-26-lutas-de-mulheres-no.html

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog: African women, cinema and LGBT subectivities

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog

African women, cinema and LGBT subectivities

 

Following is a selection of articles regarding LGBT African women or by African women filmmakers on the subject of LGBT subjectivities that have been published on the Blog.

Maryam Touzani: Le Bleu du Caftan | The Blue Caftan. 

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2023/01/maryam-touzani-le-bleu-du-caftan-blue.html  

Josza Anjembe : Baltringue | Freed - Towards a self-interrogation | Vers un auto-questionnement.

 https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/05/recent-films-josza-anjembe-baltringue.html.

Claudine Ndimbira : Support her film project “Living like a shadow” about the LGBTQ community in Rwanda.

 https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/12/claudine-ndimbira-support-her-film.html

Rafiki: to our forbidden love! | à nos amours interdites ! Cannes 2018 (analysis/analyse, Falila Gbadamassi - Africiné)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2018/05/rafiki-to-our-forbidden-love-nos-amours.html

Rafiki by/de Wanuri Kahiu : Cannes 2018 - Un Certain Regard

 https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2018/04/rafiki-byde-wanuri-kahiu-cannes-2018-un.html

Nneka Onuorah launches a crowdsourcing campaign for "Rotten Fruit" film project
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2017/05/nneka-onuorah-launches-crowdsourcing.html

The African Women in Cinema Blog spotlights Nneka Onuorah and her film “The Same Difference” during Women’s History Month

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2016/03/the-african-women-in-cinema-blog.html

FESPACO 2017: Normalium by/de Siam Marley (Cote d’Ivoire)

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2017/02/fespaco-2017-normalium-byde-siam-marley.html

When Alice Diop takes us "towards masculine tenderness" | Quand Alice Diop nous entraîne "vers la tendresse" au masculin by/de Sylvie Braibant – tv5monde

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2016/03/when-alice-diop-takes-us-towards.html

Understanding lesbophobia in West Africa: sixteen women’s voices | Seize voix de femmes pour comprendre la lesbophobie en Afrique de l’Ouest

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2014/12/understanding-lesbophobia-in-west.html

Frieda Ekotto: For an endogenous critique of representations of African lesbian identity in visual culture and literature

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2013/11/frieda-ekotto-for-endogenous-critique.html

Frieda Ekotto : Pour une critique endogène sur les représentations visuelles et littéraires de l’identité lesbienne africaine

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2013/11/frieda-ekotto-pour-une-critique.html

"Difficult Love" by Zanele Muholi

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2015/09/difficult-love-by-zanele-muholi-and.html

Zanele Muholi: Some Prefer Cake - Bologna Lesbian Film Festival - Italy

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2012/07/some-prefer-cake-le-festival-du-film.html

Zanele Muholi: Some Prefer Cake - Le Festival du film lesbien de Bologne - Italie 2012

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2012/07/some-prefer-cake-le-festival-du-film.html

Cheryl Dunye's "Black is Blue" Kickstarter campaign success

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/10/cheryl-dunyes-black-is-blue-kickstarter.html

Marie Kâ : L'Autre Femme | The Other Woman (Senegal)

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/11/marie-ka-lautre-femme-other-woman.html

Naomi Beukes-Meyer (Germany-Namibia) launches crowdfunding for the 2nd Episode of THE CENTRE Web Series

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2014/09/naomi-beukes-meyer-germany-namibia.html

Wanuri Kahiu: "Homosexuality is not unafrican; what is unafrican is homophobia"

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/08/homosexuality-is-not-unafrican-what-is.html

Boukary Sawadogo discusses his research: Three marginal figures in the cinemas of Francophone West Africa - the mad person, the homosexual, the woman

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/08/boukary-sawadogo-discusses-his-research.html

Sophie Kaboré’s Quest: Exploring African homosexualities

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2010/07/sophie-kabores-quest.html

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog : African Women Make Sports Movies

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog

African Women Make Sports Movies

The empowering experience of sports in the lives of African girls and women has been the focus of a number of films by African women in the past decade.

Representations of African girls and women athletes may also serve as a means to educate the public about the accomplishments of girls and women in sports that are generally male-dominated, such as weight-lifting and boxing.

A selection of relevant links from the African Women in Cinema Blog highlighting African women's storytelling through sports:

Boxing. Iman Djionne: La Boxeuse | Boxing Girl
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/02/festival-films-femmes-afrique-2020_17.html
 

Boxing. Jessie Chisi: Between Rings
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/09/jessie-chisi-talks-about-between-rings.html
 

Soccer. Naziha Arebi: Freedom Fields
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/09/naziha-arebi-freedom-fields-afrika-film.html
 

Soccer. Florence Bamba: Numero 10
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/01/recent-films-florence-bamba-numero-10.html
 

Soccer. Florence Ayisi: Soccer Queens
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2010/06/florence-ayisis-soccer-queens.html
 

Soccer. Marwa Zein: Oufsaiyed Elkhortoum | Khartoum Offside
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/01/oufsaiyed-elkhortoum-khartoum-offside.html
 

Weightlifting. Mayye Zayed: Ash Ya Captain | Lift Like a Girl
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/08/mayye-zayed-ash-ya-captain-lift-like.html
 

Motorcycling. Joan Kabugu: Throttle Queens
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/joan-kabugu-throttle-queens.html
 

Running. Amleset Muchie
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/02/nyaff-2021-amleset-muchie.html
 

Women and girls' empowerment
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/06/african-women-make-soccer-movies.html
 

Differently-abled - Child Soldiers
http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/11/world-premiere-flying-stars-by-ngardy.html
 

Resistance - Revolution
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2011/09/rama-thiaw-young-filmmaker-in-struggle.html
 

Deaf culture
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/01/yveline-nathalie-pontalier-lance-une.html
 

Conflict resolution
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/02/fespaco-2013-rumbi-katedza-team-l.html
 

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog: African Women in Cinema addressing issues regarding the environment, migrants and all global matters

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog

 

African Women in Cinema addressing issues regarding the environment, migrants and all global matters

"…we have to make sacrifices in order to live in this world…we have to know that our own behavior will affect generations to come.”--Wanuri Kahiu

African women of the moving image have a particular concern for issues regarding the environment, migrants and global matters and their impact on Africa and African

A selection of relevant links from the African Women in Cinema Blog

Wanuri Kahiu: Afrofuturism
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/09/wanuri-kahiu-afrofuturism-and-african.html

Julie Djikey: Ozonisation
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2014/04/julie-djikey-performance-ozonisation.html

 

Africa Women Cinema and Migrancy
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/04/african-women-cinema-migrancy.html

 

Traveling gazes: Glocal imaginaries in the transcontinental, transnational, exilic, migration and diaspora cinematic experiences of African women
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/05/black-camera-spring-2017-beti-ellerson.html

 

Hawa Essuman: Silas Deby
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/02/fespaco-2019-silas-deby-hawa-essuman.html

 

Pascale Gaby Serra: Zone III
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2018/06/mis-me-binga-2018-pascale-gaby-serra.html

 

Mame Woury Thioubou: 5 étoiles
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/11/mame-woury-thioubou-5-etoiles-un-recit.html

Randi Maroufi: Bab Sebta
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/vues-dafrique-2021-randi-maroufi-bab.html

Aicha Macky: Zinder
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/aicha-macky-zinder.html

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog - Behind the camera, in the frame: African Women's Autobiographical Imaginaries

Women's History Month at the African Women in Cinema Blog
Behind the camera, in the frame: African Women's Autobiographical Imaginaries

 
“You want to do a story on Zanele Muholi? Where is she in this? You do a story on me, where will I be? Will I be another subject standing in front of the camera and tell my story completely?...What will be my position?

Zanele Muholi highlights the urgency of the African woman practitioner to be the agent of her own story. Hence, for her, “history, historical agency, and autobiographical consciousness have become significant and signifying components of identity, artistic production, and social agency.” She is an “empirical subject” who exists separate from and prior to her films.

A selection of relevant links from the African Women in Cinema Blog:

Rim Temimi: Manco Moro
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/11/rim-temimi-manco-moro.html

Nesrine el Zayat: On the Fence
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/nesrine-el-zayat-on-the-fence.html

Laura Sousa: Fin | End
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/laura-sousa-fin-end.html

Karima Saidi: Dans la Maison | A Way Home
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/artetv-karima-saidi-dans-la-maison-way.html

Lina Soualem: Leur Algérie
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/vues-dafrique-2021-lina-soualem-leur.html

Ines Johnson Spain: Becoming Black
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/12/ines-johnson-spain-becoming-black.html

Tamara Mariam Dawit: Finding Sally
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/08/recent-films-tamara-mariam-dawit.html

Matamba Kombila: Mundele n: blanche, étrangère - white, foreigner
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/07/matamba-kombila-mundele-n-blanche.html

Eliane Tekou Donchi : La main interdite
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/02/festival-films-femmes-afrique-2020_11.html

Aline Angelo Milla & Soraya Milla: Afropolitaine, la websérie 100% afro french touch
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2020/12/afropolitaine-la-webserie-100-afro.html

Beryl Mgoko: In Search
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/10/ndiva-womens-film-festival-2019-in.html

Words of Frieda Ekotto, producer of the film Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion With My Sisters
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/03/words-of-frieda-ekotto-producer-of-film.html

Aicha Macky: The Fruitless Tree | L’arbre sans fruit
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2017/03/luxor-african-film-festival-2017_2.html

Khady Sylla & Mariama Sylla Faye : Une Simple Parole | A Single Word
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-une-simple-parole-single-word.html

Astrid Ariane Atodji : La Souffrance est une école de sagesse | Suffering is a School of Wisdom
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2015/03/laff-2015-astrid-ariane-atodji-la.html

Fidel 2013: Perspectives of Black African Women - Images of Diversity and Equality Festival (Paris)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/09/fidel-2013-perspectives-of-black.html

Tapiwa Chipfupa: The Bag on my Back
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2013/08/aljazeera-witness-bag-on-my-back.html

Claude Haffner: Footprints of My Other (Black Here, White There)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2012/03/claude-haffner-black-here-white-there.html