A significant number of articles have been translated into English and are available exclusively on the Africultures website. This is our attempt to to bridge the linguistic divide and create a link between the French and English-speaking worlds. To this end, we would dearly like to work with an Anglo-Saxon journal, to extend our research efforts.
We have already covered a lot of ground since the project was launched in 1998. The results we have achieved to date are the product of synergies and commitment.
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Film texts and Cinematic Kinship : Tunde Kelani
Published on 2017-02-21 by Tunde Onikoyi
In this interview, I discuss with the stalwart of Nigerian Cinema, Tunde Kelani on the universe of his cinematic oeuvre. While I draw attention to a large n… -
Marilyn Nance, January 2017
Published on 2017-02-21 by Fanny Robles
Forty years ago, in January 1977, when Marilyn Nance was only twenty-three years old, she left the United States for the first time, and went to Lagos, Nige… -
« Coming to terms with the past will allow one to continue »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
In French theatres on 23 December 2015, As I Open My Eyes is an event: the revelation of a young Tunisian filmmaker and a film of great significance (see re… -
Seeing Beyound Words
Published on 2017-02-21 by Frieda Ekotto
Eva Barois de Caevel’s curatorial work addresses more than art. It brings our attention both to words’ limitations and to their limiting power, as it asks u… -
Musical Destination 3 : Lagos
Published on 2017-02-21 by Africultures
What is the hit of this summer in Lagos ? The biggest summer hit for now would be Dorobucci’ by artists on the Mavin Records label (Don Jazzy, Dr. Sid, T… -
« I am not interested in denouncing polygamy: my film goes beyond that »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Senegalese director Angèle Diabang was selected to participate in La Fabrique des cinémas du monde during the 2014 Cannes Film Festival professional progr… -
« A story about characters that have to hide their deepest feelings at every cost »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
John Trengove has been selected by the Fabrique des Cinémas du monde, developed by the Institut français in Cannes Film Festival, a professional programme… -
Ethiopian Cinema today
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Encounter at the 67th Cannes Film Festival with Ethiopian Filmmakers (project « Adis to Cannes »).O.B. : What brings you together in Cannes? Organisation : A… -
« I bring sounds to grow national happiness »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Caroline Trouillet
After the success of Paris Rockin’, Winston McAnuff and Fixi came back in September with their new album A New Day, a medley of influences where Fixi’s acco… -
« We need to think again from the beginning! »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
What is your feeling about Osvalde Lewat’s film? Well, you ask the million dollar question! I was surprised to see me and the school and my position within… -
Frieda Ekotto: For an endogenous critique of representations of African lesbian identity in visual culture and literature
Published on 2017-02-21 by Beti Ellerson Poulenc
Frieda Ekotto, Cameroonian, writer, professor of French, comparative literature and Africana studies at the University of Michigan, lives and works in the U… -
Mogadishu Then and Now, by Rasna Warah:
Published on 2017-02-21 by Africultures
Rasna Warah is a Kenyan journalist, photographer and author (1) who has paid particular attention these past years to the history of Mogadishu, Somalia. Thi… -
« Homosexuality is not unafrican; what is unafrican is homophobia »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
How is it for you to be part of the Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde here at the Cannes Film Festival? It’s such an honor being as part of the Cinémas du mo… -
What happened during the Addis Foto Fest #2?
Published on 2017-02-21 by Marian Nur Goni
Following the enthusiastic reports and echoes of the first edition of this biennial held in 2010 (1), followers of the African photographic scene were excit… -
Collecting and crowdsourcing images to engage history with renewed tools. A look into the History in Progress Uganda’s experience
Published on 2017-02-21 by Marian Nur Goni
« History in Progress Uganda » (HIP), a platform founded and energetically run by Dutch photographer / artist Andrea Stultiens,aims toidentify, preserve and p… -
When a sociologist works with a photographer on African Pentecostalism in Italy
Published on 2017-02-21 by Giulia Paoletti
After four years of research between Nigeria and Italy, the photographer Andrew Esiebo and the sociologist Annalisa Butticci are finally presenting their wo… -
Borderland :
Published on 2017-02-21 by Nathalie Carré
First of all, Bound to secrecy (Borderland in its french translation) is your first book to be published in French (though you published two others in Engli… -
On Film and cinema in Libya
Published on 2017-02-21 by Hans-Christian Mahnke
Ramadan Salim was born in 1953 in Azizia, Libya. He is writer, journalist, and film critic, who began writing in 1979 about Libyan literature and never stop… -
Documenting South African History.
Published on 2017-02-21 by Samuel Lelièvre
Peter Davis is a British documentary filmmaker based in Canada. He is the author of In Darkest Hollywood: Exploring the Jungles of Cinema’s South Africa, a … -
Nadia El Fani: « In politics it’s alright to lose »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
You make a simple investigation on the hypocrisy that exists in religion as it is lived in daily life with a focus on Ramadan. Then there is a revolution an… -
« We still have a long way to go »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
We have already discussed your films in some detail, but I’d like us to develop a few ideas. It is difficult for us here to understand the relationship betw… -
« I haven’t seen any change happen in Egypt »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
How did you come to cinema ? I spent 18 years covering wars from 1987 to 2004, and after 18 years I was very tired; I lost my confidence in making document… -
Alice Diop: « It is up to us to work on our own complexes »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Born in France into a Senegalese family, Alice Diop studied the relationship between cinema and society before venturing into documentary filmmaking: La Tou… -
1 200 local mini movie theatres: the ReaGilè Project in South Africa
Published on 2017-02-21 by Samuel Lelièvre
In recent years, Western audiences were able to see more South African films and feed their curiosity for a production which was largely unknown. In South A… -
« Collecting as story telling »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Erika Nimis
Dr Kenneth Montague, owner of the Wedge Collection based in Toronto, Canada, is the founder of Wedge Curatorial Projects, a not-for-profit organization ded… -
To experience the violence
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Khalo Matabane, as your work is not very well known yet in France, and as filmmaking is not that accessible to a lot of black populations, could you explain… -
Nigeria : Focusing more on quality
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Firstly, could you introduce yourself and tell us your different activities? My name is Victor Okhai. I’m a Nigeria filmmaker and producer. I also run a fi… -
Oliver Hermanus : « It’s not a judgement of a character, it’s a portrait »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
We are at the Cannes Film Festival, you film is being screened in the Un Certain Regard selection. What were your first feelings when you found out you had … -
« The way to help us is to give us our funding on time! »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
The Fespaco 2011 is now over. Would you say the outcome was positive? Has the Vision 21 dynamic come into effect? It’s not for us, but for our guests and t… -
« This is the last Fespaco I’ll be coming to »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Fespaco 2011 is drawing to a close. Your declarations during the course of the week have provoked a lot of reactions. How would you judge this edition? Yet…
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The Fruitless Tree by Aïcha Macky
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
The jury of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in June 2016 granted its documentary prize to The Fruitless Tree by Aïcha Macky, co-produced by Sani Mag… -
On Call (La Permanence), by Alice Diop
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
In competition at the Cinéma du Réel Film Festival in Paris (March 2016) where it received the Institut français Louis Marcorelles Award, On Call is a fi… -
As I Open My Eyes, by Leyla Bouzid
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Crowned with awards at international festivals from Venice to the Carthage Film Festival, Leyla Bouzid’s feature debut comes out on French screens the 23rd … -
Danbe, head held high, by Bourlem Guerdjou
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Do not miss this telefilm on Arte, scheduled Friday, 23 January, 2015 (and rebroadcast on Sunday morning, 01 February). A touching portrait of the combat of… -
My Friend Victoria by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Out in French cinemas on December 31, 2014, My Friend Victoria, adapted from a novel by Doris Lessing, is a beautiful film, both gentle and unexpected. With… -
Raja Amari’s « Tunisian Spring »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Programmed for December 18, 2014 on the French cultural channel Arte.Tunisian Spring is a charge taken on by one of the most talented Tunisian filmmakers.(1… -
« Congo, A Doctor to Save Women » by Angèle Diabang
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
You only have until the end of November 2014 to see [at this link]the excellent documentary by Angèle Diabang about Dr. Denis Mukwege and his hospital for… -
A Gang of What?
Published on 2017-02-21 by Claire Diao
After two feature films about identity, femininity and the construction of self, Céline Sciamma completes her trilogy with a film about four black adolesce… -
Girlhood, by Céline Sciamma
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Girlhood [Bande de filles] opened the Directors’ Fortnight at the last edition of Cannes [2014] with an excellent reception. Should one see in its success a… -
Teza
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
It’s been a long time since an African film has to this extent drawn us into the epic. In this sense, Haile Gerima renews with his magnificent Harvest: 3000… -
Another first for Guinea
Published on 2017-02-21 by Doris Green
Ballet National de Keita Fodeba or Les Ballets Africains – Les Amazones de l’orchestra Feminin de la Gendarmerie Nationale – Nimbaya! The Women’s Drum & Dan… -
« Here, We Drown Algerians »
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
At the moment of preparations for the commemoration of Algerian independence, it is essential to underscore the forgotten histories, their episodes voluntar… -
On the Plank
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Her skin, she rubs it with lemon – almost pulling it – to remove the smell after a day of shelling shrimp at the factory. To detach herself from the conditi… -
Untouchable: the keys to success
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
It is the talk of the town and everyone wants to see the film: Untouchable (Intouchables) is in France a huge box-office hit and mid-way to catching up with… -
A Screaming Man
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
A Screaming Man was shown in the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection on Sunday 16 May, 2010 and awarded the Jury Prize on 23 May.Father and son, Adam an… -
Dreams in search of a Hook
Published on 2017-02-21 by Mwenda wa Micheni
While Kigezi Ndoto is in deep reflection, the rebellious Githaa is contrastingly loud even disorganized in most bits. The performance speaks in street slang… -
Rain by Maria Govan
Published on 2017-02-21 by Anne Crémieux
Rain was born during a storm; the grandmother who raised her dies during a storm. The weather in the Bahamas is as uncertain and violent as its economy and … -
Corazones de Mujer by Kiff Koosof
Published on 2017-02-21 by Anne Crémieux
With its Spanish title, Italian directors and Moroccan actors, Corazones de Mujer sounds exotic enough. The plot is simple, one of the oldest in the book: Z… -
Africa’s First Theater Director was Maurice Sonar Senghor
Published on 2017-02-21 by Doris Green
Book Review: Souvenirs de théâtre d’Afrique et d’Outre-Afrique : Pour que lève la semence, contribution à l’édification d’un théâtre noir universel -… -
Memory in detention
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
« A man without memory is a man already dead »: these words from the film bring to mind a Fulani proverb that goes a child without memory’s poop will never be… -
Delwende (Stand up and walk)
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Yameogo originally wanted to be a journalist. Realizing the political limits of this profession, he shifted to films which he perceived as freer and in each… -
Sounds of Sand
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
New disaster of the simplistic look that develop, despite the best intentions in the world, western directors when they take Africa as the set for their own… -
Tartina City
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
More than ever, the images of memory matter. Like former centuries but with an upsurge of the technical, the twentieth has piled up atrocities in the most v… -
Où vas-tu Moshé? (Finemachiyamoché)
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Benjelloun’s films are films that say more than they suggest, that point an accusing finger more than they cast an eye, would have said critic Serge Daney. … -
L’Ombre de Liberty
Published on 2017-02-21 by Africultures
published on 15/08/2007 A mysterious outspoken critic pirates the waves of the national radio: Liberty. His words are incantatory, a poetic harangue encoura… -
Wooden Camera
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
published on 15/08/2007 Wooden Camera started as a great screenplay idea: Madiba, a poor kid in a township, finds a video camera on a corpse and hides it in… -
Drum
Published on 2017-02-21 by Africultures
As South Africa is seeking a still uncertain future, it is not a coincidence if a black director has chosen to concentrate on Sophiatown of the 50s. It is i… -
Summer of ’62 (Cartouches Gauloises)
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Summer of ’62 is a story of torn loyalties. It is set in that type of very special moment when History senses it is time to turn a page, during this spring … -
Lili et le baobab
Published on 2017-02-21 by Olivier Barlet
Everybody who is attracted to Africa should absolutely see this film. It is a beautiful lesson on a relationship finally devoid of the eternal ambiguities i… -
Heart and home (Mariage et ménage)
Published on 2017-02-21 by Africultures
The local productions that are multiplying thanks to the digital revolution free expression that has been curbed for too long or the object of an external g…
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