Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou to Take Place in Vietnam

The first decentralization of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO - Burkina Faso) will take place in Vietnam.

The Embassy of Morocco and Belgium in Vietnam, the International Organization of La Francophonie’s Asia-Pacific Office and the General Delegation Wallonia-Brussels in Vietnam will introduce the first decentralization of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou in Vietnam, on March 11-14 at the National Documentary and Scientific film Studio, 465 Hoang Hoa Tham Street, Hanoi.

For the first time, a panorama of African cinema is on view in Hanoi. The FESPACO will offer you an exceptional opportunity to discover four masterpieces of African cinema, tracing different horizons of this continent.

11/03/2022: A mile in my shoes (Morocco)

12/03/2022: L’œil du cyclone | Eye of the Storm (Burkina Faso)

13/03/2022: Félicité (Senegal)

14/03/2022: The Mercy of the Jungle (Rwanda)

Through these cinematographic works, Africa emerges in its complexity and mystery, full of natural beauty, human warmth and hope, but also ethnic and social challenges.

Among them, Félicité, a drama depicts the life a nightclub singer in Kinshasa. Whenever Félicité performs on stage, she appears to leave her worries behind. Her audiences are quickly infected by the rhythm and melodies.

One day Félicité’s teenage son, Samo, is involved in an accident that has him admitted at a municipal hospital.

In order to pay the doctors, Felicite is forced to knock at the doors on the impoverished streets and the wealthier districts of Kinshasa for money.

Félicité’s sparsely furnished flat, with its permanently defunct fridge, becomes a mini utopia.

A Mile in My Shoes, a psychological thriller that tells the story of a child who, born and bred in misery and suffering, decides to take revenge on the society that has marginalized him.

A Mile in My Shoes is a 2016 Moroccan drama film directed by Said Khallaf. The movie tells the story of the hard life of Said, played by Amine Naji, a teenager who has always lived in misery and suffering, and who decides to avenge from a cruel and intolerant society.

A social film that evokes the social problems stuffing our society: street children, rape, human exploitation, violence against women, outrageous parental authority.

In an African country plagued by civil war, a young idealistic lawyer is officially assigned to defend a rebel accused of war crimes.

L'oeil du cyclone is a 2015 Burkinabé psychological drama film about child soldiers. In a nameless, African country riven with civil war, a young female lawyer is the court-appointed counsel for a rebel leader. He has been accused of serious war crimes and his reputation is that of a butcher. But the idealistic lawyer encounters the delinquent unflinchingly. The pair size each other up as in a chess match and move by move get closer to the truth. The defendant was a child soldier. Did that make him what he is today?

Two men, exhausted by what seems like endless war, are forced to reckon with their pasts and their region's present in the survival drama from Rwandan filmmaker Joel Karekezi - The Mercy of the Jungle.

Karekezi has crafted a harrowing story that reflects the horror of past genocide but advocates for reconciliation and a brighter future for the next generation.

FESPACO is one of the biggest film events on the African continent and it brings together African and international professionals and festival-goers from all over the world to communicate, to build relationships, to exchange expertise and to reinvent themselves.

The Vietnam's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism had decided to organize the first Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou in Vietnam in 2021.

Originally scheduled for December 10-12, 2021, the event was postponed in Vietnam due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to NDO.

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