Cinewax media - les histoires africaines d'aujourd'hui
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La Nuit des rois, un conte satirique sur l'univers carcéral
Après Run, son premier long-métrage sélectionné à Cannes en 2014, Philippe Lacôte nous convie aux festivités de La Nuit des rois, dans l’univers farouche et halluciné de la prison de la MACA. Dans ce huis-clos, se jouent des destins de légende, dont les vies bien réelles ont pris part à la crise politique et sociale en Côte d’Ivoire. -
"L'Appel à la Danse": where modernity and tradition interlace
The Call to Dance in Senegal is a documentary produced in 2018 by the ScreenSkin collective. The first in a series of films about modern dance, The Call to Dance in Senegal illustrates the syncretism between traditional and urban dance in new Senegalese creations, while telling the story of a passionate youth who journeys to the heart of everyday life.
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"Becoming Black": you are not born black, you become it
Becoming Black, en français Devenir Noire, est le premier long-métrage d’Ines Johnson-Spain. Ce documentaire autobiographique, sorti en 2019, narre l’histoire peu commune de cette réalisatrice afro-allemande qui a grandi en Allemagne de l’Est dans les années 1960 au sein d’une famille blanche. Consciente de la différence manifeste de couleur de peau entre ses parents, son frère et elle, et malgré le déni absolu de son entourage, elle finit par découvrir la vérité sur sa filiation ; elle est le fruit d’une liaison adultère que sa mère a eu dans sa jeunesse avec un étudiant Togolais. Ines Johnson-Spain décide alors de se lancer sur les traces de son père biologique et d’en apprendre plus sur ses origines africaines. Cette quête identitaire la mènera de l’Allemagne au Togo, en passant par le Bénin. -
Downstream to Kinshasa, 20 years after the Six-Day War
Dieudo Hamadi, Congolese film director, follows the stories of war-mutilated victims who survived the battles of Kisangani in the year 2000, and who are demanding compensation. This powerful film was named an Official Selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival and IDFA (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam). Its release in cinemas will take place this year. . -
The Cotton Club : the (un)expected talk show of the Afro community
Un talk-show réunissant le temps d’un débat des personnalités francophones afro-descendantes autour d’un dîner, vous en rêviez ? Devanee et Kady Tabouré l’ont fait ! Cinewax vous en dit plus sur Le Cotton Club, un projet inspirant à soutenir et à partager. -
An overripe fruit will eventually fall off its tree
The 72-minute documentary Burkinabé Rising (2018) by Brazilian-Korean filmmaker Lara Lee is an excellent introduction to Burkina Faso: its turbulent history and its people's rebellious spirit. -
My love Ethiopia, the history of a country through storytelling
With the presence of krar, the lyre of Ethiopia, supernatural and imaginary forces in the narrative, My love, Ethiopia (Mon Amour Ethiopie) guide us into an interior universe where it is possible to ward off the limits of reality. This animated tale produced by Gabrielle Tesfaye is dedicated to the dead and missing victims of Ethiopia's "Red Terror" during the 1970s. -
ONCE AN OLD LADY SAT ON MY CHEST OR THE RITE OF PASSAGE OF THE IDENTITY CRISIS OF BLACK WOMEN
Ayant recu de nombreux prix dont l’Audiance Awards décerné par la British Academy of Film and Television Arts en 2018, Once an old lady sat on my c... -
She Paradise: a short film made in Trinidad and Tobago
She Paradise is a short fictional film directed by Maya Cozier in 2019. The film follows Sparkle, a 17-year-old girl in search of emancipation, seeking a source of income to match her adventurous desires. While trying to integrate into a professional, free-spirited soca dance club, she has seductive but unsettling encounters, including that of Mica. In the maze of nightlife in Trinidad and Tobago, where sex and money intertwine, Sparkle slowly learns to come to terms with who she is and what she wants to become. -
“If Africans lose their stories, Africa will die”: The Sembene Across Africa Project
Ousmane Sembene is commonly referred to as the Father of African cinema. Yet, despite the significance of Sembene’s works for African cinema today, his work is still little known by Africans.
Who is Sembene? What kind of vision did he had for African cinema? And how could Sembene's legacy inspire contemporary African filmmakers?
To know more about the need to indigenise African cinema, read the interview with Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman who recently launched the Sembene Across Africa initiative.
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In search of Ebony Vinyl revives Congolese music from the past, from Franklin Boukaka to Franco
The film follows Aidan, a record shop owner in Le Havre who is on the lookout for old vinyls of Congolese music, and the director, Rufin Mbou Mikima, in search of the voices of his childhood, including Franklin Boukaka, Franco and other Bantus of the Capital, in the furrows of Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The director took part in an interview with Cinewax. Take a look for an opportunity to (re)discover Congolese classics!
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Goldfish, African fish: the fruitful and dangerous trade in Senegal's dried fish
Goldfish, African fish is a 52min observational documentary which gives voice to the workers of Kafoutine port located in a village in the region of Basse-Casamance in Senegal. A well organized fishing industry operates there and brings women, men and children together from all over Africa, endangered by the arrival of multinationals and the new economic policy of the Senegalese government.
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