Art in cinema, cinema in art.

Museum M Sunday, 22 March

 

The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana, 2014, 78 min

Yaba Badoe

The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo explores the artistic contribution of one of Africa’s foremost woman writers, a trailblazer for an entire generation of exciting new talent. The film charts Ama Ata Aidoo’s creative journey in a life that spans 7 decades from colonial Ghana through the tumultuous era of independence to a more sober present day Africa where nurturing women’s creative talent remains as hard as ever.Over the course of a year the film follows Aidoo as she returns home to her ancestral village in the Central Region of Ghana, launches her latest collection of short stories in Accra, and travels to the University of California, Santa Barbara to attend the premier of her seminal play about the slave trade,Anowa.With contributions from Carole Boyce Davies, Nana Wilson- Tagoe and Vincent Odamtten, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo gives a fascinating insight into the life of a feminist poet and novelist and brings Aidoo’s writing to new audiences.

Break

Burundian afternoon

La belle  l'oiseau, Burundi, 2013, 7 min

Kanyange is a pretty young girl who is incredibly shy and as a result she rejects all the marriage proposals that come her way. One day she meets a handsome, wealthy prince. He’s the perfect gentleman, but will she agree to be his wife?

Uburundi Bitamba!, Belgium/Burundi/Congo, 2013, 60 min

Catherine d’Otreppe, assisted by Mamita Banda, Magali Nidoux, Jean-Benoit Falisse, Laurent Serpé.  

In a artist workshop in Burundi, people are working hard to process the traumas of the past wars and riots. Through music, dance and the spoken word, these young people see a new hopefull future.

I Mashoka, Burundi, 2014, 104 min, fictie & animatie

 Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo and Pascal Capitolin 

Somewhere in Africa, year 2058, a man and a woman are in front of a camera. They tell their story that started fourty one years earlier, Mid. 2017. On a hill, a formerly green country, the local population face a major crisis . The water is contaminated. Every drop of rain or source water must be treated before it can be used for consumption or cultivation. This extreme situation is causing the emergence of two separate clans Abanyamazi (experts in water treatment) and Abagabuzi (farmers and traders). Both clans live in peace, but a secret antagonism reigns on their relationships. In this context of mutual distrust Nijimbere and Kamikazi love each other.

Het AFF brings the European premiere of this film.