Africa - Women - Cannes 75e 2022

Africa - Women - Cannes 75e 2022

Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia), president of the Semaine de la critique Jury

Awards:

Erika Etangsalé: Lèv la tèt dann fenwar | In the Billowing Night by (Prix Doc Alliance 2022 - Doc Day) 

Cinéfondation Cannes 2022
Suzannah Mirghani: Cotton Queen (Sudan)

ArteKino Award

Un Certain Regard
Maryam Touzani: Le Bleu du Caftan (Morocco)

Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Erige Sehiri: Sous les figues (Tunisia)

Prix EcoProd Award

La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut français
-Burkina Faso – Djéliya, Mémoire du Mandingue by Boubacar Sangaré, produced by Mamounata Nikiéma (Pilumpiku Production) - Feature Documentary
-Egypt – Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore by Morad Mostafa, produced by Sawsan Yusuf (Bonanza Films) - Feature Fiction
-Rwanda – Benimana directed and produced by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo (Ejo-Cine) / Feature Fiction

DEENTAL at Cannes
ACP women among the producers participating at the week-long training/workshop/meetings during the 2nd edition of the DEENTAL at Cannes from 18 to 24 mai 2022
-Khadija Mahfou (Cote d'Ivoire)
-Kady Traoré (Burkina Faso)

 

Cannes Short Film Corner

Douleur silencieuse, the first short for Franco-Guinean Aïssa Diaby was selected and screened at the Short Film Corner

Cannes classics
Fatou Cissé: Hommage d’une fille à son père (Mali)

Cannes Cinema
Cannes cinéma (curated by Angèle Diabang, a series of shorts to be broadcast by Cannes Cinema beginning in September 2022 during the Cannes Cinema season in partnership with Ciné-Club, Voir et devoir, les Jeudis) or in the context of Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes.
Her selection of shorts:
-Hary Andriaminosoa  et Joel Rakotovelo: The unusual kinky quaint peculiar weird strange rum queer odd and bizarre day of a shadow man
-Saa Kessas: La Voie d’Henriette
-Djelika Mama Traoré: Ma Passion

-Toboe Audrey: N’tcholo
-Fatoumata Bathily: Taajabone

-Kevin Mavakala: La Star 

 

Masterclass (The African Pavillon)

Rahmatou Keita

25 May 

 

ALSO SEE:

A Celebration of Black Women in Film at the Cannes Film Festival
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-celebration-of-black-women-in-film-at-cannes.html

African Diasporas. United Kingdom. Ngozi Onwurah Retrospective & Q&A - Film London

African Diasporas. United Kingdom

Ngozi Onwurah Retrospective & Q&A - Film London

 

Tue 17 - Sun 15 May

 

Source: https://filmlondon.org.uk/events/ngozi-onwurah-retrospective-q-a

Join TAPE Collective for a film retrospective and recorded Q&A with filmmaker Ngozi Onwura. The event offers an opportunity to hear Onwurah talk about her works integral to the British film canon. Filled with complex and insightful narratives that put the Black British experience at the forefront, Onwurah became the first Black British female director to have a film theatrically released in the UK with her feature debut Welcome II the Terrordome and Shoot The Messenger.

African Women in Cinema - Stories of healing, of overcoming, of renaissance, of rehabilitation

African Women in Cinema: Stories of healing, of overcoming, of renaissance, of rehabilitation

Notes ongoing by Beti Ellerson

Following is a selection of articles from the African Women in Cinema Blog that addresses African women’s cinematic stories of healing, of overcoming, of renaissance, of rehabilitation

Rosine Mbakam: Les prières de Delphine

#storytelling

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/rosine-mbakam-les-prieres-de-delphine.html

Ellie Foumbi: Mon père le diable

#memories

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/ellie-foumbi-mon-pere-le-diable.html

Hawa Aliou N’Diaye: Kuma!

#rehabilitation

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

Fan Sissoko: On the Surface

#identity

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2022/06/fan-sissoko-on-surface-animation.html

Ines Girihirwe: Breaking Ground

#domesticviolence

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/10/ines-girihirwe-breaking-ground.html

Candice Onyeama: Born Again

#infertility

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/04/atlanta-film-festival-2021-candice-onyeama.html

 

Nthabiseng Mosieane: Overcome beloved

#DomesticViolence

https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2021/05/recent-films-nthabiseng-mosieane-overcome-beloved.html

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed. Globalisation and indigenous cinemas: a history of Ghanaian Dagbanli films

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Globalisation and indigenous cinemas:

a history of Ghanaian Dagbanli films

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13216597.2022.2073256

Abstract
While there has been extensive research on English language media in Ghana, there remains a huge gap in indigenous language media research. Through in-depth interviews with movie industry stakeholders, this article examines the history of indigenous language film in Northern Ghana, paying attention to the evolution of the movie industry and the various cultural flows that have shaped its development. Grounding the study in indigenous African knowledge systems, I present the history of the Dagbanli movie industry. I argue that to understand how the Dagbanli movie industry has been sustained for three decades, it is imperative to examine critically the industry’s history and the innovative strategies filmmakers have employed to keep up with changing trends in technology and aesthetics in the film industry. Filmmakers draw on Dagbaŋ culture (one of the major ethnic groups in Ghana) and film industries in the Global South to address the needs of their audiences while funding their films independently. From these findings, practical and theoretical recommendations are presented to contribute to improving filmmaking and research on indigenous language filmmaking in Ghana.

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed is an assistant professor of global media at the College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is co-editor of the book, African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora (forthcoming 2022). Her research which focuses on feminisms, broadcast media, development communication, and political economy of communication have appeared in Communication Theory, Review of Communication, and the Howard Journal of Communications.

Mamounata Nikiéma : élue présidente de la Fédération nationale du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel du Burkina Faso | elected president of the National Federation of Cinema and the audiovisual of Burkina Faso

Mamounata Nikiéma :

élue présidente de la Fédération nationale du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel du Burkina Faso |

elected president of the National Federation of Cinema and the audiovisual of Burkina Faso

Translation from French. See original French text published 04 Mai 2022 : Africine.org

Mamounata Nikiema, filmmaker and producer from Burkina Faso, was elected president of la Fédération nationale du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel du Burkina Faso (the National federation of cinema and the audiovisual of Burkina Faso) at the extraordinary assembly on Saturday April 23, 2022 in Ouagadougou for a four-year term.

 

She is very involved in the filmmaker networks in Burkina Faso (Africadoc Burkina, Guilde des scénaristes, Association des producteurs du Burkina Faso, Fédération Nationale du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel...). Moreover, for the past several editions, Mamounata has been actively involved at FESPACO as president committee or member during the past several editions.
 

In 2018, she launched the event, Cine‐équipement  and the digital cinema platform Sulunsuku (www.sulunsuku.com). With this illustrious background, Mamounata Nikiema received the title of Knight of the Order of Merit, Arts, Letters and Communication with Agrafe ''Cinematographie'', during the 27th edition of FESPACO.