12TH AFRYKAMERA FESTIVAL
AKOUNAK TEDALAT TAHA TAZOUGHAI (RAIN THE COLOUR OF BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT)
Walked out. Nothing much happens, the music is the same all the time and I'm not a fan of the guitar in the first place.
MALOYA
Watchable. Another film with monotonous music but with a warmer rhythm. Gives some info about cultural changes in Reunion.
I SHOT BI KIDUDE
Walked out. About a singer but with hardly any music. Investigating what's happened to the money of somebody I've never heard of was no fun.
TO CATCH A DREAM
Watchable. A short film preceding "The Traveller". Imperfect technologically yet very mystical and very African - a short film about ghosts.
THE TRAVELLER
Watchable. A fun film with good music, inspiring dancing and bewitching festive outfits - at the Blues Du Fleuve Festival in Senegal. I should go one day. Nothing particularly insightful in the film
though, more like a reportage.
LE GANG DES ANTILLAIS (THE GANG OF FRENCH CARIBBEAN - IN THE UK, GANG OF THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN - IN THE US, THE GANG OF THE CARIBBEAN - IN SA)
Watchable. Quite fun. Inspired by a true story. Evokes memories of living as an immigrant. A bit chaotic.
SUDANESE NIGHT
SUDANIA
Watchable. A brief (5'), nice yet forgettable, impression of Sudan.
NYERKUK
Would have walked out if it hadn't been a short film. About a small boy in the realm of a mafia. Depressing, unclear, with no storyline.
ONE WEEK, TWO DAYS
Would have walked out if it hadn't been a short film. Checking one's own pregnancy test makes more sense than the film.
YALLA KHARTOUM
Walked out. About a local meeting place for artists, showing random people talking about nothing in particular. Boring for anyone who's not an artist based in Khartoum.
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