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Twenty Years of African Cinema (French: Caméra d'Afrique) is a 1983 Tunisian documentary film directed by Férid Boughedir.
Shot over a decade, Caméra d’Afrique relates the first 20 years of the new cohorts of creative film-makers that emerged in sub-Saharan Africa, documenting an unprecedented hunger for expression that remains unsated to this day.
Filmmaker Ferid Boughedir chronicles the continent's black cinema with interviews and film clips. Perhaps the documentary's greatest strength is the way that it opens up the archive of...
- Férid Boughedir
- Documentary
CAMERA D’AFRIQUE, the result of a personnal shooting that took place over ten years, recalls the early 20 years of those new “authors”, created in Sub-Saharan Africa, which bear witness to an amazing thirst to show and to express themselves, never extinguished to this day.
After several decades of colonial cinema using Africa as an exotic setting – often denying humanity and dignity to its people – and 70 years after the invention of the cinema, freshly independent Africans take hold at long last of that movie-camera which had been forbidden to them for so long.
Shot over a decade, Caméra d’Afrique relates the first 20 years of the new cohorts of creative filmmakers that emerged in sub-Saharan Africa, documenting an unprecedented hunger for expression that remains unsatiated to this day.
May 22, 2019 · In Caméra d’Afrique (African Cinema: Filming Against All Odds), Tunisian director Ferid Boughedir explores the first 20 years of these new “auteur films” from Sub-Saharan Africa through clips from films, rare documentaries, and interviews with directors.
