The International African Film Festival of Argentina (Ficaa22), which starts tomorrow, will offer a retrospective of the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène and a panorama of current Senegalese cinema.
This edition of Ficaa, organized by South Observatorywill take place from this Wednesday, until next Sunday, November 6, with face-to-face functions with free admission and also with virtual projections.
More than 50 films between short and feature films from 25 countries and which include films from Algeria, Burundi, Cape Verde, Congo, Egypt, Spain, the United States, Ethiopia and Ghana, among other countries, can be seen in the exhibition that proposes to revisit the continent and its people with films from all corners of Africa, and which includes the pervasive issue of migration.
De Sembene, who won the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 with “Moolaade” and won the Special Jury Prize in Venice with “Camp de Thiaroye” in 1998, as well as receiving awards at competitions such as Moscow, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Karlovy Vary, there will be three feature films and a short.
starting by “Borom Sarret”, a short film from 1963, a picture of daily life in the slums of Dakar; and continuing with “The black of…”from 1966, which describes the violent journey of a young woman from Dakar who accompanies a white couple to Antibes, France, on vacation.
will also be seen “Le Mandate”, from 1968, which narrates the journey of a man through Senegalese society, based on the anecdote of a person with his life established who receives a sum of money from France and how this event provokes a series of imbalances in his life; Y “Xala”from 1975, Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary and which deals with greed in Senegalese society and its inability to break away from foreign influences.
The retrospective of Sembene, considered “the father of cinema” in sub-Saharan Africa, has the support of the Ministry of Culture and Communication of Senegal together with the Cinematheque of that country.
The retrospective films will be presented by the Senegalese professor Magueye Kassefrom the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, and president of the Association Sembene Ousmane.
Ficaa will take place simultaneously in different venues in the cities of Buenos Aires, Alta Gracia and Jesús María de Córdoba.
will count will feature screenings and face-to-face activities, at the Buenos Aires headquarters of the National Library, the National Bicentennial House, the French Alliance, the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) and the University of the Argentine Social Museum; while in Córdoba the spaces will be the Alta Gracia National Jesuit Estancia Museum and the House of Viceroy Liniers, the Jesús María Estancia and the National Jesuit Museum, in that locality.
From November 8 to 22, the complete program that includes documentaries that reconstruct some important sections of the continent’s history and fiction films that seek to account for the growing film industry in some countries, as well as a selection of experimental films where dance and poetry are the protagonists, will be available for free on the platform Let’s LiveCulture for the entire Argentine territory.
In network with other festivals, Ficaa will have a FiSahara Window (International Film Festival of the Sahara) with a selection of Saharawi-themed films that seek to portray the situation of refugee camps in Algeria.
The complete program as well as the places and times of projection can be consulted at https://observatoriosur.org/festival-internacional-de-cine-africano-de-argentina-ficaa-2022/
