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Burkina’s film festival in full swing despite fighting on its doorstep

Burkina’s film festival in full swing despite fighting on its doorstep

IN Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, soldiers give directions to movie-goers and journalists attending the continent's premier film festival that is going ahead this year despite the violent insurgency gripping many of its regions. Since the biannual Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) was last held in 2021 the West African country has had to deal with the political fallout from two coups within eight months and spiralling violence driven by groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State. The festival's delegate-general, Alex Moussa Sawadogo, said Burkina Faso had been dealing with the insecurity for several years, but it…
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Cameroonian film festival returns

Cameroonian film festival returns

BLAISE YONG and JOSIANE KOUAGHEU FILMMAKERS and actors gathered in the western Cameroon town of Buea for a film festival this week, as the region tries to regain a measure of normalcy despite an ongoing secessionist conflict. The Cameroon International Film Festival was cancelled in 2019 and 2020 because of the conflict between state forces and English-speaking rebels, as well as the coronavirus pandemic. The festival has returned this year and features two Cameroonian films that have been bought by U.S. streaming service Netflix. One is the 2020 drama Fisherman's Diary about a young Cameroonian girl determined to go to…
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