Film of the day: LE TAXI, LE CINÉMA ET MOI (dir Salam Zampaligre, 2022) Scattershot documentary about the stymied career of Burkina Faso director Drissa Touré, fascinating as a snapshot of the problems African cinema faces but too unfocused to be entirely successful as a standalone film.
#IFFR2023 #documentary #AfricanCinema #film #filmfestival #filmposterart

It's Marytwala Mhlongo's weathered old face that speaks thousand words in #Thisisnotaburialitsaresurrection. Her dignified stand in her forever black mourning dress sticks out in the frame mostly populated by giant Lesotho sky. There are many beautiful scenes but Mantoa in her best dress dancing with the dead - shot in close handheld camera & women in black choir singing at Mantoa’s son’s, stand out for me. #Lesotho #LemohangJeremiahMosese #africancinema

Talking about an epic of Biblical proportions, Soulemane Cissé tells a Bambara myth steeped in animism and sorcery I couldn't help but compare Yeelen to Scorsese's Last Temptation while watching it. Like many other folk tales from different cultures, Yeelen concerns a great journey, good vs evil and father-son rivalry.
The film has a very different sense of lyricism and visual poetry I'm not really familiar with, and it's very refreshing. #mali #africancinema #film #SoulemaneCissé

Senegalese film director, producer and writer Ousmane Sembène (January 1, 1923 – June 9, 2007) #OusmaneSembene #OusmaneSembène #SenegaleseFIlm #Senegal #Film #Cinema #Director #FilmDirector #Producer #FilmProducer #Screenwriter #SenegaleseFilmmaker #AfricanFilm #AfricanFilmmaker #African Director #AfricanCinema

Timbuktu | Official US Trailer |

"Abderrahmane Sissako’s film is a beautiful, serene slice of life outside of Timbuktu."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CspcDYQ-SiY

#AbderrahmaneSissako #AfricanCinema #Cinema #Timbuktu