Dieudo Hamadi was selected at both #Berlinale and #Cannes; #Hassen Ferhani# was awarded at #Locarno. These are only two African documentary filmmakers now recognized by the prominent Western festivals. But, they are also the first of a new wave of cinema that holds a mirror up to #Africa of its own image and upends its traditional representations. This year, Cinéma du réel welcomes this booming documentary scene, from the #Maghreb to #South Africa#, whether French-speaking, English-speaking, Portuguese-speaking or Arabic-speaking.

Cinéma du réel L’Afrique documentaire programme

• Ten figures who, in their time, produced radical, even revolutionary works, charting a path simultaneously political, cinematographic, inventive and activist.
• 12 films from a new generation of filmmakers from across the African continent.
• Six programmers and African personalities share their view of this cinema (w. #Claire Diao#, #Jihan El-Tahri#, #Pedro Pimenta#, #Mohamed Saïd Ouma#, #Ikbal Zalila#, #Mandisa Zitha#).
• Led by #Hicham Falah#, five case studies toward a better understanding of the diversity, creation, and production of documentary cinema across the continent.
• A master class by #Joël Akafou#
• A meeting between French documentarians and documentarists from Africa initiated by #ADDOC and a round table at #BULAC: «Living here, working over there», between filmmakers and researchers.