Fespaco 2021: highlighting the new generations
Opening ceremony of Fespaco 2021 with a troupe of dancers performing on a choreography by Serge Aimé Coulibaly.
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The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) is well and truly launched.
Despite the pandemic and despite the security crisis affecting Burkina Faso, the African film festival started this Saturday, October 16 at the end of the afternoon, with the traditional opening ceremony at the sports hall.
The official competition, the broadcasts of films, documentaries and series began this Sunday, October 17, but the launching ceremony clearly marked the spirits.
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With our special correspondent in Ouagadougou,
Guillaume Thibault
Fight, create, build on the heritage of Sankara.
The ambition of this 27th edition of Fespaco is to highlight the new generations.
Present, the Head of State Roch Marc Christian Kabore wondered about the difficulties in the cinema sector: “
What are the constraints, the prospects for African cinema?
It will be necessary that all the actors of this world look at it so that we can remove all the obstacles which prevent African cinema from prospering.
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Read also: Opening of Fespaco 2021, African cinema in a mode of resistance and renewal
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We all need the same thing
: hope
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With nearly 40 dancers and a superb choreography, all supported by renowned artists such as the Senegalese Baba Maal, Serge Aimé Coulibalya has succeeded in his bet: to restore the image of Fespaco, to prove that Faso is indeed there. “
We have to bring together all of our strength to be able to show the world that we stay upright,” he
explains, “
that we are there on our feet and that we are ready to move forward despite adversity. We all need the same thing
: hope.
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A posture also claimed by Fespaco officials.
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The seventh art, it should be remembered, can validly defend peace by flexing all forms of fundamentalism and extremism for activists in prison and defend solidarity between our peoples,"
underlines Salifo Taida, who chairs the committee of 'organization.
Long live African cinema!
Long live the Fespaco!
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To listen: 27th Fespaco: the renewal edition
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