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Kigali: Rwanda invited as guest of honor to the 26th edition and fiftieth anniversary of FESPACO

Rwanda was invited as guest of honor to the 26th edition and fiftieth anniversary of the Panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) which takes place from February 23 to March 02, 2019, Rwanda News Agency Reports.

After Egypt in the Maghreb in 2015 and Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa in 2017, FESPACO has shifted its spotlight to the Great Lakes Region to highlight an emerging country, the Republic of Rwanda.

It is Rwanda nicknamed “the country of a thousand hills” which is therefore a guest of honor for the fiftieth anniversary of the festival of African cinema that takes place every two years, odd years, in the capital of Burkina Faso.

This 26th edition of FESPACO whose first edition was initiated in 1969 will be held under the theme: “Confronting our memory and forging the future of a pan-African cinema in its essence, its economy and its diversity”.

On the visual of the edition we will see Mouna N’diaye, the Senegalese-Burkinabe actress.

The work reflects the principles of cinema: charm, beauty, dreams. The actress is moving forward to the future. Africa with the black color, the darkness of movie theaters. But also the theme, memory and future with all these strips of film that are the film baggage of Africa.

One of the innovations of this edition is the special selection for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary: ​​The classics of African cinemas and the diaspora, the emblematic films of the last 50 years, a retrospective of the winning films, the restored films of the heritage of the cinemas in Africa and the diaspora.

For this fiftieth meeting, the African equivalent of the Cannes Film Festival in France, ninety festival representatives from around the world are expected, as well as twenty national cinematographic structures from Africa and the diaspora at MICA (International Cinema and Audiovisual Market).

For the 26th edition of the biennale of African cinema, there will also be three hundred media outlets, two thousand five hundred media professionals: journalists, communicators, critics, photographers. This edition will bring together three thousand professionals in the film industry.

Twenty thousand spectators are expected at the opening ceremony, at the municipal stadium Dr Issoufou-Joseph-Conombo, and five thousand spectators at the closing ceremony at the Palais des Sports in Ouaga 2000.

Fifteen African ministers in charge of cinema and audiovisual will be present. With them, ten presidents or directors general of international and regional institutions (UNESCO, African Union, European Union, International Organization of the Francophonie, ECOWAS, UEMOA, Council of the Agreement, etc.).

For Ardiouna SOMA (General Delegate of FESPACO), fifty years is the golden age that challenges us about our past and our future; the gains, the failure and the repositioning necessary to better address the future.

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