African Film Festival of Ottawa

African Film Festival of Ottawa

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Saturday, October 28, 2017 - Sunday, November 05, 2017

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Add to calendar

2200 Richcraft Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Aboubakar Sanogo, 613-520-2600 ext 2346, aboubakar.sanogo@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

$0.00

About this Event

Host Organization: Carleton University Film Studies, African Studies and Canadian Film Institute
More Information: Please click here for additional details.

African Film Festival of Ottawa Third Edition Announcement
Newly Restored Prints only and several Ottawa Premieres!!!!
Carleton University’s Film Studies Department and Institute of African Studies, and the Canadian Film Institute (CFI) are pleased to invite you to the third edition of the African Film Festival of Ottawa (AFFO), held over two weekends, on October 28 -29 and November 4-5, 2017 at Richcraft Hall (River Building Theater) on the Carleton University Campus.
This year’s edition is dedicated to the theme of film preservation. We have decided to take advantage of the launching of the African Film Heritage Project (AFHP), a partnership between the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI), Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and UNESCO for the preservation and restoration fifty (50) African films of artistic, historical and cultural significance, to bring you some of the masterworks of African cinema, which will be shown in their most pristine condition.
The festival opens on Saturday, October 28th at 7pm with Borom Sarret (1963) and La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966) two classics by Ousmane Sembene, often referred to as the “Father of African Cinema,” along with Egypt’s Shadi Abdel Salam’s monumental Al Mummia (The Night of Counting the Years) (1969) (screening 9pm Saturday, October 28th). The festival’s first weekend ends with Soleil O by Mauritanian director Med Hondo, restored in 2017, featured in the Cannes Film Festival Classics section and screening Sunday, October 29th at 4pm.
The second weekend, we will screen Morocco’s Ahmed El Maanouni’s chef d’oeuvre Alyam Alyam (1978) (Saturday, November 4th at 4pm) and Senegal’s Djibril Diop Mambety’s masterpiece Touki Bouki (1973) (Sunday, November 5th at 4pm).
All films will be screened with English subtitles.
For more information, please refer to the following link:
http://www.cfi-icf.ca/index.php?option=com_cfi&task=showevent&id=182&Itemid=1784
We look forward to seeing you there!!!