African culture: the appointments in April
Cynthia Ebijie in “Eyimofe” (2020), by twin brothers Chuko and Arie Esiri (Nigeria), film scheduled for the Angers African Cinema and Cultures Festival, from April 6 to 10, online.
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In digital or face-to-face form, where will the flagship meetings of African culture take place in March?
Here are eleven proposals.
And don't hesitate to send us your “must-haves” to rfipageculture@yahoo.fr.
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The
New African Film Festival
in Washington DC is celebrating its 17th online edition, extended to audiences across the United States, with a selection of 33 films from 26 countries on the African continent and the Diaspora.
From April 1 to 18, the program, supported by the American Film Institute (AFI), Africa World Now Project and afrikafé, displays
This is not a burial, it's a resurrection
, among
others
, by director Lemohang Jeremiah Moses (Lesotho), our favorite of the Mostra 2020
Zanka Contact
, by Moroccan director Ismaël Iraki,
The Milkmaid
, by
Desmond Ovbiagele
(Nigeria) and the restored cult film by Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir,
Camera d'Afrique
.
Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, one of
the most prolific
Algerian
and Arab artists of the 20th century, is in the spotlight until July 31 at the
Sharjah Art Museum
.
Under the theme
Lasting Impressions
, the exhibition in this city in the United Arab Emirates presents 70 works from several periods of the painter.
Africa is also present at the
43rd Créteil International Women's Film Festival
(April 2-11).
Among the films posted online, Franco-Algerian-Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem shows her documentary
Leur Algeria
which questions the long journey of exile and silence of her grandparents Aïcha and Mabrouk.
Tunisian filmmaker
Raja Amary
presents the premiere of her film about the engagement of a young woman in Tunisia,
Ghofrane and the promises of spring
.
The artist
Roméo Mivekannin is
enjoying a major exhibition (from April 2 to June 5) at the Dakar gallery of Cécile Fakhoury under the theme
Black Host
, a title borrowed from the collection of poems written by Léopold Séar Senghor in 1948. Mivekannin, new artist African in vogue on the art market, born in 1986 in Bouaké (Ivory Coast), now lives and works between Toulouse (France) and Cotonou (Benin).
In his gallery in Abidjan, Fakhoury presents until June 12 the
Heritage
exhibition
by the Ivorian artist
Jems Koko Bi
.
The artist, who lives and works between Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Essen (Germany), explores the themes of identity and heritage through a group of unpublished works.
The Angers Festival of African Cinemas and Cultures
does not give up sharing its curiosity with us and offers between April 6 and 10 a special program and online discussions around African films.
In an original way, everyone can become their own programmer and meet with a group of 8 to 10 people, "
accompanied by a resource person who enlightens them on the works and their context
".
Among the feature films scheduled:
Aza Kivy
(“
Let's not give up
”) by Madagascan director Lova Nantenaina, and
Eyimofé
(Nigeria), by Chuko and Arie Esiri.
The 37th
Vues d'Afrique
International Film Festival
will take place April 9-28 in Montreal, Quebec.
This 2nd digital edition sees itself as a reference organization for the information and dissemination of cultural productions on Africa, Creole countries and their diasporas.
On April 13, at de Baecque et associés will
take place a sale of contemporary African art showing the beauty and richness of African artistic creation.
Beyond the works of established artists like Romuald Hazoumè, there will also be artists to discover, such as the Congolese photographer Rachel Malaika or the protean Burkinabè artist Kader Kabouré.
On April 14, as part of the Popular University organized by the journal
Something We Africans Got
, the Quai Branly Museum presents in an online version
a debate around “Design” and “African aesthetics”
to better understand the evolution of design in Africa.
With the artist and designer Jean Servais Somian and Aurélien Gaborit, Africa collections manager at the Quai Branly museum.
On April 14, Christie's Paris is auctioning several works by Egyptian artists, brother and sister
Mohammed and Effat Naghi
.
“
This is a great first for the Christie's Paris Impressionist and Modern Art auction
”.
Mohamed Naghi, Egyptian diplomat, was - thanks to his many trips to Europe - at the heart of the artistic and cultural revolutions of the early twentieth century and in 1935 founded the “Atelier d'Alexandrie”.
The Oscars will be presented on April 25 in a face-to-face ceremony, but in several locations in Los Angeles.
Tunisian director
Kaouther Ben Hania
is still in the running for Best Foreign Film with
The Man Who Sold His Skin
.
Thus, for the first time in the history of Tunisian cinema, it offers its country a presence on the final list of Oscar nominations.
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Thank you to all the artists and professionals for their proposals.
You too can send us your “
essentials
” of African culture in 2021 to
rfipageculture@yahoo.fr
.
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