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The jury of the Ecrans noirs 2018 festival in Yaoundé. © Ecransnoirs.org
The 22 th edition of the "Ecrans noirs" festival, one of the main film festivals in Africa, ended Friday, July 20, 2018 in Yaoundé, under the theme "Cinema and politics in Africa". Fifteen awards were given to actors in African cinema after a week of competition. The most prestigious prize, the Ecran d'Or, was won by the director Machérie Ekwa Bahango, from the DRC, for her film Maki'la.
Prize for the best Central African film: the Cameroonian pair Paul Samba and Chinepoh Cosson for Rebel Pilgrim. Screen of the best documentary: Thomas Grand and Moussa Diop, Senegal. The curtain drawn on this 22nd edition, Bassek Ba Kobhio, director and director of the Ecrans noirs festival, showed his satisfaction: "It's a very good vintage! It is a very good variety. Films that came from all corners of Africa: Morocco, Tanzania, Algeria, Tunisia, but also South Africa … a very good vintage with difficulty, moreover , at the selection level. And that's fine, when programming has difficulties in terms of choice.
In the account of the satisfaction, Maki'la, of the Congolese Machérie Ekwa Bahango who, for a first attempt, achieved a master stroke by winning the Ecran d'Or, the most important prize of the festival
According to the director of Ecrans noirs, "The peculiarity is that first of all, many people were surprised that it was a first film."
For Bassek Ba Kobhio, all is not won. In addition to the challenges related to production, the problem of distribution is still thorny: "It is nice to implement, give all facilities to businesses, give tax facilities, customs and other, domaniales" nothing helps. 19659004] "They set up their cinemas and do not take care of the local cinema, they do not care. And we are forced to pay fortunes to occupy these rooms … ", regrets the director of Black Screens. "It will be necessary for Cameroon, for example, to say to itself: but where could we have cinemas where young Cameroonians could broadcast the films in good conditions? "
Founded in 1997 by the Ecrans Noirs association, the Ecrans Noirs Festival aims to promote and promote cinemas in Africa and the Black World. In 2008, it became a competitive festival highlighting numerous awards and talents; It is one of the essential annual events of the 7th art in Central Africa.
Innocent KONAN
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