African culture: events in March 2022

"After your revolt, your vote" (Burkina Faso, 2017), by Kiswendsida Parfait Kaboré, one of the 24 films presented as part of the "Documentary Africa" ​​focus at the Cinéma du réel, International Documentary Festival, from 11 to March 20, in Paris.

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In Paris, Brest, Créteil, Limoges, Mitry-Mory, Saint-Denis, Hamburg, Montreal or Lagos… during this month of March, where are the key events for African culture planned?

Here are 15 suggestions.

And don't hesitate to send us your “must-see” cultural events at rfipageculture@yahoo.fr.

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From March 1 to 31, the

festival pays tribute to Mali and its capital Bamako.

Initiated by the Lavoir Moderne Parisien in the French capital, the event is taking place throughout the Goutte d'Or to celebrate the creativity of Malian artists and cultural actors.

Among the highlights of this first edition, Fatoumata Diabaté's Street Photo Studio,

, a street performance with

or a special scenography by Cheick Diallo.

Galerie Melbye-Konan in Hamburg, Germany, presents from March 3

, an exhibition of two artists each inspired in their own way by Africa.

Vivian Timothy, born in Owerri, Nigeria, lives and works in Germany.

Her native country and the African continent are at the heart of the work of this self-taught Nigerian artist and activist.

Her paintings are inspired by nature, women and cultural heritage while addressing social injustice and stereotypes.

The abstract and figurative work of the German Anna-Belén Meyer is strongly influenced by the spirituality and landscapes of the African continent.

In his series on old sailcloths, Belén discusses the history of the city of Hamburg, which is historically closely linked to Africa through its commercial and port activities.

Until March 12, the Galerie Cécile Fakhoury presents for the first time in Paris a personal exhibition of the painter Aboudia.

Born in 1983 in Abidjan, the artist went through prestigious fairs such as Art X Lagos, 1-54 or Dak'Art Off and lives and works between his hometown and Brooklyn.

After his paintings evoking Ivorian youth in the turmoil of the post-electoral crisis, the artist is today considered " 

 ".

The Museum of the Liberation of Paris invites us from March 8 to an exhibition on

.

In the center is the work of eight renowned women photographers who have covered 75 years of international conflicts between 1936 and 2011. On the program, the photographs of Françoise Demulder on the capture of Addis Ababa in 1991 showing, for example, a supporter of the Democratic Front revolutionary of the Ethiopian people.

Christine Spengler, born in 1945, went to Chad and Western Sahara.

As for Carolyne Cole, born in 1961, she received the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting in Liberia.

"Boxing Libreville" (2018), by Gabonese director Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou, one of the 24 films presented as part of the "Documentary Africa" ​​focus at the Cinéma du réel, International Documentary Festival, from March 11 to 20, in Paris.

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 Just in time for International Women's Rights Day, the Cie La Louve magnetée is resuming its creation

A powerful piece that tells, dances and sings on stage about the rage, courage and resistance of women in Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

March 8 at the Atalante, in Mitry-Mory (77), March 12 at the Arlequin, in Morsang-sur-Orge, and from June 8 to 19 at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien.

“The Question

 This is how director Laurent Meininger explains his fascination with Henri Alleg's text, which he will be directing with Stanislas Nordey from March 8 at the Quartz in Brest, and then in Belfort, Paris, Fouesnant and Strasbourg.

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The Créteil International Women's Film Festival is the largest and most long-lasting festival in the world.

Created in 1979, it presents 150 films each year.

From March 11 to 20, among the films in competition are the fiction

, by Kelsey Egan (South Africa), the documentary

by Samaher Alqadi (Egypt/France/Norway/Palestine/Germany) and the short film

, from Ghyzlène Boukaïla (France/Algeria).

With 24 films made over the past four years by the youngest generation of African filmmakers, the Cinéma du réel 2022 offers us at the Center Pompidou-Paris, from March 11 to 20, 

.

The focus of the International Documentary Festival also brings together works by tutelary figures such as Oumarou Ganda (Niger), the figurehead of African cinema, Sarah Maldoror, or the Franco-Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo.

In international competition,

, by Central African director Rafiki Fariala, will celebrate its premiere in France.

(Xaraasi Xanne), by Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré (France, Germany), will highlight the violence of colonial agriculture and the ecological issues on the African continent today based on the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, cooperative farm founded in Mali in 1977 by immigrant workers from West Africa living in France.

Without forgetting the tribute to the Egyptian director Atteyat Al-Abnoudy.

"Red Card" (2020), by Comorian director Mohamed Saïd Ouma, one of the 24 films presented as part of the "Documentary Africa" ​​focus at the Cinéma du réel, International Documentary Festival, from March 11 to 20, in Paris.

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From March 14 to 20, Les Zébrures du Printemps at the Francophonies Festival – from writing to the stage, in Limoges, France, honors women with the presence of 7 authors out of the 11 guest playwrights.

The themes will revolve around the conditions of women or questions around femininity.

On the program, among others, two creations by Cameroonian Kouam Tawa,

, a musical reading, and the performance

, where the author returns to the dead of Cameroon's war of independence.

Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe, from Benin, will present

, a text in progress, like Les

, by the Congolese Bibiche Tankama N'Sel.

Another strong point, the reading of

, a tribute to the Haitian anti-colonialist resistance fighter Sanite Bélair, the winning text by Jean D'Amérique, RFI Théâtre 2021 prize, under the direction of Aurore Fattier.

From March 15 to April 1, the 17th edition of the Panorama of Maghreb and Middle Eastern cinemas will take place.

Beyond a focus devoted to the vitality of the creation of Turkish cinema, the festival offers in Saint-Denis, Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis some forty fiction and documentaries, including a window on contemporary Tunisian cinema. and thematic sessions on “ 

 ” and “ 

 ”.

The French actress and director of Senegalese-Malian origin Aïssa Maïga will be the godmother of the 38th edition of Vues d'Afrique, in Montreal, and will also present her documentary

.

The largest African film festival on the American continent will exceptionally begin online at tv5unis.ca, from March 26 to 31, before welcoming its audience in theaters at the Cinémathèque québécoise, from April 1 to 10.

Highlights include the North American premiere of

by Moroccan director Nabil Ayoush, the unprecedented shock documentary

by Thierry Michel, the comedy

by Burkinabe filmmaker Boubakar Diallo and

by Somali filmmaker Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, the 2021 Fespaco Gold Stallion.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Evian Accords, the Institute of the Arab World in Paris presents from March 18

.

In this unique display, dialogue between Algerian artistic creation through three generations of artists, from 1953 to 2021. From the non-figurative painting of Louis Nallard, born in 1918, to the works of El Meya (Benchikh El Fegounà, artist-painter, born in 1988.

“Afrique, je te plumerai” (1992), by Cameroonian director Jean-Marie Teno, one of the 24 films presented as part of the “Documentary Africa” focus at the Cinéma du réel, International Documentary Festival, from 11 to March 20, in Paris.

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Boxing through Contemporary African Art

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The Art-Z Gallery and the Kenéo agency, in collaboration with the French Boxing Federation, offer on March 17 a dive into the history of boxing on the African continent through photographs, paintings and sculptures.

The artists, all of African origin, resonate both boxing and the world around it, like many works referring to the mythical fight between Mohamed Ali and George Foreman.

From March 31, the Institute of Islamic Cultures (ICI) in Paris opens the exhibition

(“the chain” in Arabic).

A reflection on transmission and representation through works by artists living in France and whose personal or family history is part of a migratory journey.

A journey of gazes through time and space.

The exhibition is accompanied by a multidisciplinary program that puts women in the spotlight: storytellers of legends from Lebanon, Mali, Algeria and Morocco...

To mark the opening of Tiwani Contemporary in Lagos, the gallery presents until May 7 new monumental works by Joy Labinjo.

This is the first exhibition of the work of the famous British-Nigerian artist in Nigeria and on the African continent.

In the

series , the naked body is presented as a political agent and platform.

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