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| FESTIVAL DU FILM D'AFRIQUE ET DES ILES, LE PORT, 2009 |
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Magical ? Le Fifai - Le Port reopens the famous Casino theatre, one of the oldest in the Islands. Le Fifai Le Port: a festival close to the docklands, which outlines the impulse given by the Municipality, and an original supporting structure gathering energies. A festival with a History.Special events ? Gems ? A world premier, produced in the city of Le Port, ‘Ilha Sorrow’ and the work from Reunion based director Fred Eyriey. Other local productions to notice are the new documentary film produced by Tik Tak production ‘prisonnier d’un mythe’ about an eighties serial killer; new students work from The Institute of the image of the Indian Ocean (ILOI), also feature movies, some small short gems fiction and non fiction from all over the globe and a special mention to young and upcoming north african filmmakers (Algeria and Tunisia).Open air screenings ? Two open air screening for the following musical documentaries: Musica Cubana, directed by German Kral and Soul Power by Jeffrey Levi-Hinte: the triumphant chant, in the heart of the Zaire, of a black America fighting against institutionalized racism in the mid-seventies with live performances by James Brown, BB King, Miriam Makeba and so on…Free screenings all day for the closing Sunday October 4th in the Casino theatre. Tickets are available on: www.otebiye.com The 2009 edition ? Two Congos, visions from Algeria, the Creole worlds and the ‘Art of the do) ck’. Thematic are in the title itself ‘Africa, the Islands’ in the harbour city of Le Port. It means travels and Diasporas, the world as it is. Choices ? The world in all its complexities: for instance works depicting this torn giant fighting for a rebirth Algeria, or about both Congo. And Congo Kinshasa, is a unlimitdness land ravaged by a " African world war " that depicts through films Jihan El Tahri, and the Belgian Thierry Michel, as well as, from the inside, the famous Congolese film-maker, and driving force of a film festival in Benin, Monique Phoba, our guest. We had already received her brilliant fellow countryman Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda. Fifai, is an opening to the world, by people of this very world.Filmmakers in attendance ? The screening of the films of Mrs Sarah Maldoror, Mrs Sylvaine Dampierre, (with the MCUR) Mrs Monique Phoba, Mrs Marie-Clémence Paes producer from Madagascar, Mr. Mama Keita with his action movie narrating a return back home, The absence ". We are also welcoming two upcoming directors Bintou Diarra who directed "Bor bor pain" on the reintegration of the children soldiers, and Mr Giscard Bouchotte (Haiti), cultural activist from the AfricAmerica foundation, for its Creole film " The life Sarah dreamed about ". All the films of our " Workshop from Reunion ", be they from independent producers ( Tik Tak productions), or from the ILOI. Thanks to Alain Dufau for accepting to be the first one whose film " Beyond Black Cape “ will be subjected among the others to " The school of the criticism " which he will, alongside the critic Daniel-Rolland Roche, lead. The School of criticism workshop opens to the public from 11:30 am till 12:30 am every day in the digital screen. Free entrance. Malagasy filmmakers in attendance and also from Mauritius with the project ‘Ansenm-ensemble’ with Dominique Merven, David Constantin and their friends. Tributes ? Fifai is faithful and shows the most renowned work of a good director from Mali, whom we had planned to invite in Reunion, Adama Drabo, deceased last July. Tribute also (thanks to Louis Gonzague Hubert), to one of the pioneers of the documentary form from Reunion cinema, Alain Gérente. Every year since 1993, Fifai, which has presented before programs of unknown Reunion and Malagasy films, investigates the past of the images.s. Must see films ? Some examples with "Inland" an extreme, vast, familiar and fantastic work at once, a very free Algerian creation." Zh' ar ", one mastered, discreet work, on the image and the imagination, between Algeria and Tunisia, realized by an artist of the 7th Algerian art, and then: for the first time in cinema 35 mm the original work of Michelange Quay " Eat for this is my body ". Baroque, it is really so vibrating of desire and hunger as a maloya of the children of Gramoun Lélé in one " kaz-gro blan “! What prizes grants the festival to the selected films ?
The documentary and fictions prizes exist since 2003.
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