“Africa seen through African Eyes”
The one and only African Film Festival in Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region
32 Films and 8 Filmmakers from Africa
Officially approved programme of the Association for the Corporate Support of the Arts, Japan
CINEMA AFRICA 2010 : 13th to 25th November
and the 50th Anniversary of Independence of African Countries
The main festival of Cinema Africa 2010 will be held from 13th to 25th November, co-sponsored by the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and in association with the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa.
The Festival will screen more than 32 films from all over Africa. Celebrating the Centennial of official South Africa-Japan relations, Cinema Africa 2010 will also have a special programme focusing on films from the Republic of South Africa.
CINEMA AFRICA 2010 is officially approved by the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Japan (Kigyo Mécénat Kyogikai – KMK), which provides corporations based in Japan with tax-deductible advantages for supporting arts projects.
Cinema Africa 2010 : Outline
Name: CINEMA AFRICA 2010
Venues: National Film Center – The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. etc.
Date: 13th (Fri.) to 25th (Thu.) November, 2010
Ticket Price: 1200 Yen
Hosted by Cinema Africa 2010
Some of the films Screened at Cinema Africa 2010
TEZA
FESPACO Grand Prix, Venice International Film Festival Special Jury Award, Cartago Arab Asian Film Festival Grand Prix
Genre: Drama
Duration: 140min
Country: Ethiopia/Germany/France
Production: 2008
Language: Amharic/German/English
Subtitle: English/Japanese
Director / Scriptwriter / Producer: Haile Gerima
Producer: Selome Gerima
[Synopsis]
An Ethiopian film about the regime of the country’s former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
The film focuses on a scientist who goes back to Ethiopia under the dictator after living in Germany.
It covers the issues of dictatorship, emigration, war and the position of women in Ethiopian society during the period.
AFRICA PARADIS
FESPACO Best Sets Award, ECOWAS African Integration Award
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 85min
Country: Benin/France
Production: 2006
Language: French
Subtitle: English / Japanese
Director: Sylvestre Amoussou
Scriptwriter: Sylvestre Amoussou
Cinematographer: Guy Chanel
Main Cast: Stephane Roux, Charlotte Vermeil, Eriq Ebouaney
[Synopsis]
Europe, including France, has become underdeveloped due to an acute economic and political crisis while Africa has experienced thriving development. As Olivier and Pauline, a French engineer and French teacher, can no longer decently live in their country, they decide to immigrate to the United States of Africa. Unfortunately they don’t manage to obtain an entry visa and therefore call on a smuggler to assist them. From that time on their life turns upside down and they face the grim reality of immigration: they experience the position of an illegal immigrant, the difficulty to find a decent job and on top of that, the political use of immigration.
Cinema in Sudan: Conversation with Gadalla Gubara
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 52min
Country: France/UK
Production: 2008
Language: English / Arabic
Director & producer: Frédérique Cifuentes
Assistant director: Sidi Moctar
Executive producer: Sias Wilson
[Synopsis]
Cinema in Sudan: Conversation with Gadalla Gubara, builds up a portrait of a great Sudanese film-maker, Gadalla Gubara.
At eighty-eight, he is one of the pioneers of cinema in Africa. He has recently lost his sight but still continues to film life in Sudan as no one before him.
Through his oeuvre, Gadalla reveals to us a Sudan both mysterious and misunderstood. Despite censorship and lack of financial support over sixty years, he has produced cinema that is independent and unique in a country where freedom of expression is a rare luxury.
The film conversations with Gadalla Gubara retraces the struggle of a man who received the 2006 Award for Excellence for his career at the Africa Academy Awards, Nigeria.
