Africa-Press – Angola. More than forty films representing twenty-three countries will be screened at the third edition of the Luanda International Pan-African Film Festival (LUANDA PAFF 2024), which starts today, produced by Academia Kongo Bizizi LDA and the Pan-African Film Institute.In this edition, which runs until next Sunday, at Cinemax (Fortaleza, Kilamba and Nova Vida), at the Cazenga Mediateca “Zé Du” and at the “CEARTE” School of Arts Complex, the organization will pay tribute to the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène.
The selected films include nine feature-length fiction films, eleven short fiction films, nine feature-length documentaries, seven short documentary films, four animated films, two Angolan short films and one Angolan feature-length documentary.
Among the twenty-three countries that are part of Luanda PAFF 2024, Angola (host), South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Egypt, USA, France, Netherlands, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Portugal, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, United Kingdom and Sierra Leone will participate.
The honoree, Ousmane Sembène, was born on 1 September 1923 in Casamance, Senegal, and died on 9 June 2007 in Dakar. He was the first filmmaker from an African country to achieve international recognition. The filmmaker remains a key figure in the rise of independent post-colonial African cinema. Crossing the geographical and national borders of his native Senegal, Ousmane Sembène’s literary and cinematographic production today places him as the “father” of African films.
The Luanda International Pan-African Film Festival (LUANDA PAFF) is an annual film event that celebrates Angolan and Pan-African cinema and showcases films produced in Africa, the diaspora and from around the world, founded in October 2019 by Ne Kunda Nlaba, film producer, director and professor of Cinema at Academia Kongo Bizizi LDA, the Pan-African Film Institute.
Conference on the identity of African women at Cine Geração
The Franco-Italian director Sabrina Onana and the Angolan historian, anthropologist and visual artist Filipe Vidal are the speakers at the conversation about the identity of African women, which takes place on Friday, from 6 pm, at Geração 80, in Luanda.
The event, in partnership with the Alliance Française de Luanda, takes place within the scope of the Luanda International Pan-African Film Festival, which starts today, in several cinemas in Luanda.
The film “Je suis noir, je suis belle” will be shown tomorrow in the morning at the “CEARTE” School of Arts Complex and in the afternoon at Cinemax Nova Vida. The conversation will take place after the screening of the documentary film written and directed by Sabrina Onana about the Afro-feminine experience.
In “Je suis noire, je suis belle” twelve Afro-French women speak openly and without taboos about their relationship with identity, beauty and femininity. The documentary addresses several topics, such as the relationship with hair, beauty standards, the male gaze, the media representation of black women and its impact on each of them in the construction of each woman’s identity.
Between hesitation, confidence, alienation and resilience, his travels lift the veil on issues that concern both African and Caribbean societies and Western societies, encouraging the opening of an honest and constructive dialogue beyond the community, while offering a sociological and social reflection.
Self-taught, filmmaker, photographer and fashion designer, Sabrina Onana is a 25-year-old artist of Italian-Cameroonian origin, with a degree in Contemporary Sociology from ENS-Paris Saclay and the Sorbonne.
It was during his undergraduate years in Social and Political Sciences at the PSL-Paris Dauphine University that he discovered his passion for documentary filmmaking – after directing his first documentary film, Crossing the colour line (2020). Since then, he has carried out several artistic and cultural projects, mainly focusing on Afro-Caribbean identities.
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