Africa-Press – Angola. The president of the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Wellars Gasamagera, expressed, yesterday, in Luanda, his desire to work with the Angolan Executive in the promotion of culture between Angola and France, through more concrete cooperation and education programmes.
For Wellars Gasamagera, who made the official opening of the Francophone Film Festival yesterday, this partnership needs to be as inclusive as possible, especially among young people, having also highlighted the role of the OIF in the dissemination of the French language, as an institutional mechanism of solidarity and sharing of humanist values.
The director of Alliance Française de Luanda, Florence Bonnet, informed that the institution, as well as the French embassy in Angola, prepared a comprehensive cultural activity to celebrate, this month, francophony, through cooperation, from the educational, economic and cultural.
This year, the program of activities for the Francophone Film Festival, which opens today and runs until the 17th of this month, at Cinemax, in Belas Shopping, in Luanda, and from the 18th to 20th of this month in Benguela, Huambo and Huíla, includes the best of film production, with an emphasis on “The Forgotten Prince”, “A Mermaid in Paris”, Adama – the world of sighs” and “Twelfth Night”.
The festival’s program also includes the network of media libraries, which will start showing, on the 18th of this month, at 6 pm, at Mediateca Zé Dú, in Luanda, documentary films of Belgian short films, with free admission.
On the 22nd and 29th, it will be the turn of Moroccan and Romanian cinema to gain space, from 18:00, in the media library network, also with free admission, various productions, some of which are aimed at children and young people.
Another highlight of the program of activities for the celebrations is the holding of the exhibition “Cantinas”, by Bruno Fonseca, from the 17th to the 25th of this month, at Palácio de Ferro, in Luanda, a photographic memory project, based on portraits of French-speaking citizens in the of work in some canteens and shops that proliferate throughout the city and suburbs of the capital.
In addition to these activities, the program has also scheduled, from the 23rd to the 26th of this month, a jazz concert, entitled “Resonance”, by Nicolas Kummert Trio, at Palácio de Ferro.
The month ends with the holding, on the 25th, at 18:00, at Palácio de Ferro, in Luanda, of a live show, called “Marathon of Francophonie”, which includes the participation of artists and groups from various artistic disciplines, from fine arts, through dance, theater and music.
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