Rwandan director Joel Karekezi’s “The Mercy of the Jungle” scooped best film at Africa’s top film festival, following a fierce debate about gender equality and sexual aggression in the continent’s movie industry.
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Inspired by the #MeToo movement, two actresses, Ivorian, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Azata Soro of Burkina Faso, are calling for a similar movement in the African cinema industry.
Malawians were never the target audience of this movie
The 2019 Fespaco was also marked by allegations of sexual abuse levelled against African filmmakers by actresses encouraged by the #MeToo movement.
the film uses a dead body that nobody wants to bury as the propeller for a satire on pen-pushers, hate-mongers, and humbugs.
“Desrances” is in competition with 19 other full-length movies for the so-called “African Oscar”
“I am the son of immigrants from Egypt.”
Some 100,000 people are expected to attend 450 screenings over the next week
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