CinemAfrica: Twenty Years of African Cinema (Caméra d’Afrique)

Directed by Férid Boughedir, TN/FR, 1983, 90 min, fr + en subs

The film is screened in French with English subtitles.

Some 70 years after the invention of cinema and after more than half a century of colonial cinema in which Africa was used as an exotic backdrop but its inhabitants were often portrayed as inferior people, in a way that undermined their dignity, Africans*Africans in the newly independent countries were finally able to wield the camera themselves. They filmed against insurmountable obstacles, without equipment or infrastructure, accepting whatever support they could get from Africa or elsewhere, and trying to convey the many and varied realities of Africa as seen by a population that had been denied the opportunity for self-expression for so long. Filmed over more than a decade, Caméra d’Afrique tells the story of the first 20 years of the new clusters of filmmakers and filmmakers who emerged in sub-Saharan Africa, documenting an unprecedented thirst for artistic expression that remains insatiable to this day.

The digitisation of Kino inak was supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. The event is organised in collaboration with Institut Français Bratislava. The event was supported from public funds by the Bratislava City Foundation and the Bratislava-Staré Mesto municipal district.