Last week Tambay got all excited at the prospect of there being an African-American film in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Turns out it was an an African, not African-American film, so Tyler Perry won’t be parambulating the Croisette just yet…
A few days later he posted this year’s line-up for the world renown festival, highlighting the African film in question, “Un homme qui crie” (A Screaming Man), by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Belgium, Chad), helmer of one of my favourite African films, Abouna, as well as Daratt, among others.
But it was only while browsing the web yesterday that it came to light that there are, in fact, Two African films in competition at Cannes this year! French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb has been mentioned a few times on this site, with films like London River and Little Senegal, and his film “Hors-la-loi” (Outside the Law...
A few days later he posted this year’s line-up for the world renown festival, highlighting the African film in question, “Un homme qui crie” (A Screaming Man), by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Belgium, Chad), helmer of one of my favourite African films, Abouna, as well as Daratt, among others.
But it was only while browsing the web yesterday that it came to light that there are, in fact, Two African films in competition at Cannes this year! French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb has been mentioned a few times on this site, with films like London River and Little Senegal, and his film “Hors-la-loi” (Outside the Law...
- 4/23/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
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