WOMEX 20 announces its full 21 film programme, facilitating discovery between music & film industries
The #WOMEX 20 Film Programme has been released in the form of a carefully curated 21 film selections from the
Africa
Raw, naked, and masculine
AFRICA: Before, it was the Baroque that seduced Achille Mbembe, now it’s brutalism – used as an analytical breakthrough to understand Africa and its relationship to Europe.
Framing Africa (what is the reality behind the stories we don’t tell?)
AFRICA: A Dutch filmmaker looks to dissect the mechanisms underpinning the dominance of Western perspectives of the Congo and the African continent.
Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa
CORRUPTION: We haven’t heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent research centre owned by Angola’s state oil company Sonangol, where Isabel dos Santos was the director until she was fired in November 2017?
Rolling thunder in Africa’s wild, wild west
COLONIALISM: A mad max-inspired terrain exists on Earth, and it is a no man’s land in Mauritania.
Crises are good business
AFRICA: A considerable number of consultants and commissioned researchers have profited from the crises in the African belt. Sahel has emerged as a crucial area for not only Norway but also for the EU and the USA.
A politically correct porn book on French oppression
SEX: Middle-class porn or a welcome new perspective on sexual relationships during colonial times?
Re-foresting the desert humans made
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent.
Ghana’s creative micro-entrepreneurs in a grey zone
AFRICA: Sakawa uses beautiful portraiture to tell a story of Ghana’s enterprising young adults who hope to make a living by learning how to scam on the Internet.
A world in stable motion
MIGRANTS: In 2018, the Collège de France established its own professorship in migration studies. Francois Héran was chosen to fill it, and the book Migrations et sociétés is an extended version of his accession lecture.
It is «you whites» who created «us blacks»
AFRICA: It is false to strive for justice «at home» while constantly exploiting «over there», writes one of the contributors in a new anthology.
Colonial voyeurism revisited
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.