Africa’s Ecrans Noirs Film Festival
June 2nd, 2006 by Andre Soares
Cameroon is currently hosting the Ecrans Noirs (Black Screens) Film Festival, which has been held on a yearly basis - in different Central African nations - since 1995.
Seven countries - Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon - are the festival’s chief participants, though films about the lives of Africans and their descendents outside the region are also shown (the Brazilian slumxploitation drama Cidade de Deus / City of God, for instance).
Forty films are being screened this year, among them Franck Garbely’s anti-imperialistic Felix Moumie, which depicts the torture suffered by a Cameroonian independence-seeking politician in the hands of the French colonialists back in the 1960s; Mama Keita’s La Fleuve, a tragic love story about human trafficking in Africa; and Thierry Michel’s adventure tale Congo River.
The Ecrans Noirs festival is taking place at the Yaoundé Palais des Congres, where screenings began on May 27. The festival runs until June 4. There are over 40 films scheduled for viewing.
More on the Ecrans Noirs Film Festival at Ohmy News.
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