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Panorama: Africa

Associations: rituals, FESPACO, rhythm

Those who Eat Wood /Ceux qui mangent le bois, Reza Serkanian, 2005, FRANCE, 52'
While Alexandra, the journalist of the French Press Agency is going through the landscapes or the Gabonese society during her meetings and researches, the forest exploiters are going through the nature to find the wood of best quality. The nature where the spiritual shamans find their traditional medicines as well as Iboga, the sacred wood.

A Love apart / Fremde liebe, Bettina Haasen, GERMANY, 2004, 52'
Rhaissa and Fatimata are two young girls of marriageable age. Rhaissa has been betrothed to a man she does not know. We enter their world with them, the expectations of the future bride and her friend Fatimata who wants to marry a man she loves. The director follows all the phases preparing her for life as a couple with great discretion and tenderness.

Ouaga, the Capital of Cinema / Ouaga, Capitale du cinema, Mohamed Challouf, TUNISIA/ITALY/BURKINA FASO, 2005, 57'
Since 1969 Oagadogu, the capital of one of the poorest countries in the world, has hosted the largest African film Festival - FESPACO

That's life, Senad HergiÄŤ, AUSTRIA, 2004, 15'
HipHop as an instrument for empowerment: first, in a short documentary form, the project “That’s life” takes a look at the goals and dreams of young black people in Austria. The second part of the project is music video, where the musician and asylum seeker Item7 raps about self assertion in the African Diaspora in Austria

Sisters of the screen, Beti Ellerson, USA, 2002, 73'
Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, the film intersperses interviews with footage from seminal works. It also confronts the thorny question of cultural authenticity by revisiting the legendary 1991 FESPACO, in which diasporian women were asked to leave a meeting intended for African woman only.

Passe Bure! The Filmmaker Fanta Regina Nacro / Passe Bure! Die Filmemacherin Fanta Regina Nacro, Dorothee Plass, Max Annas, NEMÄŚIJA, 1996, 34'
There are not many women in subsaharan Africa making films and most of them are known for their documentaries. Fanta Régina Nacro from Burkina Faso with her feature films is the exception from the rule. PASSE BURE! ( = Silence!) is the portrait of a dynamic woman in work. She is to be seen on the set of her second film “Puk Nini” in Ouagadougou, during the period of the editing in Paris and in interviews made in both places.