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Twenty feature films from sixteen African countries will be in the running for the supreme Fespaco award, which will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary between February 23rd and March 2nd. Ardiouma Soma, the general delegate of the Panafrican Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, announced Tuesday, January 15 the list at a press conference at UNESCO in Paris.
The list of feature film fictions competing for the Yennenga Gold Standard of the 2019 Fespaco.
- Five Fingers for Marseilles , by Michael Matthews (South Africa)
- Sew The Winter To My Skin , by Jahmil XT Qubeka (South Africa)
- Ila Akhir Ezzaman (Until the end of time) , Yasmine Chouikh (South Africa)
- Desrances , by Apolline Traoré (Burkina Faso)
- Duga (The Scavengers) , Abdoulaye Dao and Hervé Eric Lengani (Burkina Faso)
- Hakilitan (Memory on the run) , by Issiaka Konaté (Burkina Faso)
- Miraculous Weapons , by Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon)
- Resolution , by Boris Oue and Marcel Sagne (Ivory Coast)
- Karma , by Khaled Youssef (Egypt)
- Keteke , Peter Sedufia (Ghana)
- Rafiki , from Wanuri Kahui (Kenya)
- Barkomo (The Cave) , Aboubacar Bablé Draba & Boucary Ombotimbé (Mali)
- Indigo , from Selma Bargach (Morocco)
- Mabata Bata , by Joao Luis Sol from Carvalho (Mozambique)
- Hakkunde , Oluseyi Asurf Amuwa (Nigeria)
- The Mercy of the Jungle , by Joel Karekezi (Rwanda)
- Akasha , from Hajooj Kuka (Sudan)
- T-Junction , by Amil Shivji (Tanzania)
- Fatwa , by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud (Tunisia)
- Look at me , from Nejib Belkadhi (Tunisia)
► Read also: "Fespaco is the voice of African cinema" , rfi, 15/1/2019
► Read also: African culture: 31 meetings in 2019 , rfi, 10/1/2019
► Read also: The history of Fespaco with a big " H ", rfi, 22/2/2013
► The 26th edition of Fespaco (the Panafrican Film Festival of Ouagadougou takes place every two years) takes place between February 23 and March 2, 2019.