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Léonce Ngabo
Léonce Ngabo (born 1951) is a Burundian film director. His 1992 film ''Gito l'ingrat'' was the first Burundian feature film.Léonce Ngabo ''Africultures'' Life Ngabo studied chemistry, but kept up his musical interests and wrote the screenplay for a short film and a fairy tale. With the support of a Swiss film-maker, he secured an advance for a full-length feature film. The resulting film, ''Gito l'ingrat'', received international attention.'Vivace Bujumbura', ''The Courier''No. 17 (May-June 2010), p.57 Ngabo is the founder and chairperson of International Festival of Cinema and Broadcasting in Burundi (FESTICAB). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gito L'ingrat
''Gito, l'ingrat'' (, "Gito the Ingrate") is a 1992 Burundian comedy film directed by Léonce Ngabo. Synopsis Gito is a Burundian student who lives in Paris. When he finishes his studies, he decides to go back to his country and promises his French girlfriend that he will call her when he becomes a minister, something that he is convinced that will happen. However, he loses gradually his ambition as he is confronted with the country reality. He thus starts going out again with his childhood loved one. Nevertheless, he will make the best of a bad deal, with the help of the two women of his life. This is Burundi's first feature film, co-produced with Switzerland and France. Festivals * Amakula Kampala International Film Festival, Uganda (1992) * Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland (1992) * London Film Festival, England Awards * List of FESPACO award winners#13th FESPACO (1993), Oumarou Ganda Prize and Best Actor at FESPACO - Panafrican Film and Television Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africultures
''Africultures'' is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas. Based in Paris, it was founded in 1997 under the impetus of Olivier Barlet by journalists and academics such as Virginie Andriamirado, Gérald Arnaud, Tanella Boni, Sylvie Chalaye, Christophe Cassiau-Haurie, Fayçal Chehat, Soeuf Elbadawi, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, etc. The magazine is managed by the association Africultures and it is published by L'Harmattan. Since 2012 the documentation produced by the magazine and its database made of over 45,000 biographies of artists and 55,000 description of books, music, films and institutions has been released under the open Creative Commons attribution share alike license. In July 2007 it launched, 10 years after its creation, another organ, Afriscope, devoted to news on the same field, arts and culture related to Africa and African diasporas, while also covering topics related to social life. Africultures now focuses its activity on its website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Festival Of Cinema And Broadcasting In Burundi
The International Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual of Burundi (FESTICAB) is an annual film festival held in Burundi. FESTICAB was established by the film director Léonce Ngabo in 2009. It comprises competitions in three categories: Burundian films, East African films and international films. At the 2011 FESTICAB the East African Film Network (EAFN) was founded.From AfryKamera to FESTICAB ''Screen Africa'', June 2, 2015. The 2015 FESTICAB was disrupted by the protests against Pierre Nkurunziza, President Nkurunziza running for a third term, and many screenings needed to be cancelled. FESTICAB winners ;2010 * Best Burundian Work: ''Taxi-Love'' by Jean Marie Ndihokubwayo ;2011 * Best Short Film: ''Mwansa the Great'' by Rungano Nyoni * Sp ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East African Film Network
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Dimanche à Kigali
The United Nations (UN) is the global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among states, to promote international cooperation, and to serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of states in achieving those goals. The United Nations headquarters is located in New York City, with several other offices located in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague. The UN comprises six principal organizations: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, the Secretariat, and the Trusteeship Council which, together with several specialized agencies and related agencies, make up the United Nations System. The UN has primarily focused on economic and social development, particularly in the wave of decolonization in the mid-20th century. The UN has been praised as a le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
