Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt

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Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt
LocationApt, Vaucluse, France
Founded2003
Founded byFanny Toulemonde (Projections), Cinéma César, Le Goût de lire en pays d’Apt, Dominique Wallon and the Comité de jumelage Apt-Bakel, Senegal
Festival dateNovember annually
LanguageFrench
English
Websitehttps://www.africapt-festival.fr/

The Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt (FCAPA) is an annual international

African cinema organised since 2003 in Apt, Vaucluse, France.[1][2][3][4]

Programs of recent festival editions screen films in the categories of

2023 programme

The 2023 edition of the FCAPA screened 7 short and 20 feature films, including Amchilini (Choisis-moi) (documentary, 2023) by Kader Allamine (

Sana Na N’Hada (Guinea-Bissau); Eat bitter (documentary, 2023) by Ningyi Sun (China) and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy (Central African Republic); and Banel et Adama (fiction, 2023) by Ramata-Toulaye Sy (France/Senegal
).

Productions and outreach

The Festival produced several films with support of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, including Nanga Def and Nawaari, both by Moussa Touré in 2005 with the participation of local students, and Regards de femmes (2005) by Michel Amarger, Électro for ever (2008) by Angèle Diabang Brener with electronics students, and Le regard colonial, a 2010 montage by Jean-Pierre Daniel of colonial films.[1][4]

Engaging pupils of local schools was a festival goal since the start.[5] A screenwriter-in-residence - Nina Khada in 2022 and Lamine Ammarkhodja in 2023 - guided local students in the FCAPA Junior workshop for eight weeks to write and produce a video.[6]

In each year's Marathon program an invited film director coaches various teams to each create a three-minute short in 48 hours, which is then shown and judged by a jury at the Festival.[4]

Gallery of participants

  • Safi Faye, 2004.
    Safi Faye, 2004.
  • Dominique Wallon, 2017.
    Dominique Wallon, 2017.
  • Mouloud Aït Liotna, 2023.
    Mouloud Aït Liotna, 2023.
  • Beru Tessema, 2023.
    Beru Tessema, 2023.
  • Marwa Tiba, 2023.
    Marwa Tiba, 2023.
  • Leïla Kilani, 2023.
  • Maisha Maene, 2023.
    Maisha Maene, 2023.
  • Rim Mejdi, 2023.
    Rim Mejdi, 2023.
  • Nadia Raïs, 2023.
    Nadia Raïs, 2023.
  • Thierno Souleymane Diallo, 2023.
    Thierno Souleymane Diallo, 2023.

References

  1. ^ a b "Événements festival des cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt FCAPA 2023 21ème édition". africultures.com (in French). Africultures. Les mondes en relation. 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt". africine.org (in French). African Federation of Film Critics (Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique, FACC). 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2023. Durant une semaine, c'est plus d'une trentaine de films, courts et longs métrages, fiction et documentaire, qui sont projetés. Une vingtaine de réalisateurs invités échangent avec le public lors de débats, leçons de cinéma et rencontres. Plus de 5000 spectateurs participent à cet événement porté par une équipe professionnelle mais surtout, de nombreux bénévoles. (Translation: Over the course of a week, more than thirty films (short and feature films, fiction and documentary), are screened. Around twenty invited directors share their views with the public during debates, film workshops and panel interviews. More than 5,000 spectators participate in this event supported by a professional team but mainly by many volunteers.)
  3. ^ "Festival des cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt, Du 09/11/2023 au 14/11/2023. Apt • France". film-documentaire.fr (in French). Film Doc. 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d "Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt". africapt-festival.fr (in French). Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt. 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  5. ^ Barlet, Olivier (13 November 2007). "Apt 2006: film pedagogy". africine.org. African Federation of Film Critics (Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique, FACC). Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Productions". africapt-festival.fr (in French). Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt. Retrieved 7 December 2023.

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