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Jihan El Tarhi's "Cuba une odyssée africaine"
"music and diasporas" but not only Africa and the Islands International Film Festival of Le Port / Reunion IslandLe Port /Reunion Island/France FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL The Fifai organized each year by the city of Le Port, has for main theme the African cinematography, and the moving pictures from or about the Indian Ocean Islands and others areas treated by the various African diasporas. A unique Festival in Reunion Island linked to training structures of the industry and to a Higher Education School (Reunion Island school of Fine Arts), it is indeed a Festival for the Indian Ocean. The festival is an exceptional gathering of programs with competitions and workshops. Competitions to promote premieres to defend some directors choices, to “repair” damaged or forgotten copies through workshops, to develop thematic researches. It is the only non mainstream Festival of the Island rooted in our cultural movements that deals with the questions raise by the Regional Cooperation meaning exchanges with the population of the region. A festival dealing with the diasporas of the Islands , Africa, and of the whole globe, and through the strength of the creative freedom of authors and directors, it is a Festival that goes from the local to the global. A rare and unique moment in the island cultural agenda for the public, the Festival is also linked to cultural habits and to long term partners like Village Titan. Focus has been given from the days of the Journées du Film d’ Afriques et des Iles a decade ago on authors and directors, the Festival is an occasion for the professionals to confront aesthetics, to relate compared ideals and to propose debates It is a networking place allowing for both professionals and the public privileged moments. The implementation of a long term relationship between Reunion School of Fine Arts the Institute of the Image of the Indian Ocean ( ILOI) and the Festival has been of the key condition of its existence. MY ISLAND WAS THE WORLD As usual the Festival is host for the professionals of our South-Western region of the Indian Ocean and of Africa and elsewhere. From a new born status twenty years ago the island's regional film industry has arrived to a point where projects and productions are flourishing. The island connection with austral Africa as been quite late to establish But for more than ten years our numerous actions and events in the town of Le Port and with the University have paved the way in order to discover Austral Africa, which is the new emerging pole, and above all communicate with it. The justification of these visions, along with the desire of a new generation to create new images explain the programs Long gone the era when the neo-colonial insular consciousness was oppressed, created produced or controlled by the “other”. We are in La Reunion, and along with other close islands, on a constant quest with our partners for a moving picture produced by ourselves the local term would be “par nou mim”, a fraternal image from the West indies, from our Islands and from the Comoros Archipelagos. We must open doors for the up and coming directors of our region, it is by nature one of the main aim of a festival. What a pleasure to witness the birth of real contact with that referential South-African Festival in Durban, an harbour city which has a special relation ,with our city of Le Port. |
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