London Film Festival News Via THE INDEPENDENT
by Andre Soares
News on the 50th bfi/London Film Festival, via The [London] Independent:
"Tony Blair described Africa as being a stain on the conscience of the world’s wealthy nations. Chatting the next day over a coffee, [The Last King of Scotland director Kevin] Macdonald agreed that, "for whatever reason, Africa is more and more in people’s minds, because of documentaries and Tony Blair’s famous speech and Bill Gates’s involvement. It seems like the world has become too small to ignore it. Africa has always suffered from the sense of ‘the other’. Cinema has an important role to play in raising awareness of the problems faced in Africa, just like it did with the killing fields in Cambodia."
"Nowhere is this made clearer than in Abderrahmane Sissako’s extraordinary Bamako."
Using real lawyers and judges, Bamako is a courtroom drama revolving around a African Civil Society case against both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Gotham Film Awards 2006 Nominations
THE DEPARTED (2006) - Film Review
Chicago Critics’ Scariest Films
Reeling - The 2006 Chicago Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival
Australia’s 2006 Festival of Jewish Cinema
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