Film screening of Sacred Places this Saturday 30, March 2019, 4 pm at Room #5 2nd Floor Fairlane House, Kenyatta Market – Ngumo
Sacred Places: 2009, Documentary, Color, Cameroon/France, 70 minutes
French with English subtitles.
A Film by Jean-Marie Teno
Set in St-Leon, a modest neighborhood tucked between a cathedral and two mosques in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where 40 years, the world’s most famous FESPACO(Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou) showcases the best achievements of African film making. Sacred Places, is a film about fight to survive and maintain one’s dignity in a hostile environment.Through the lives of three characters: Jules Cesar, the djembe maker and player, Bouba the village club manager of a neighborhood movie salon that also serves as a praying place, and Abbo a fifty year old senior technician who decided to be a public letter writer. Jean-Marie Teno lays out his rich very complex and profound observations on many paradoxes of today’s Africa. One of the many contradictions the director displays is the absence of African films in African distribution at a time of remarkable technological advances.
Jean-Marie Teno
Born in Cameroon, Jean-Marie Teno arrived in France in 1978 and has been producing and directing social issue films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty five years for international television broadcast and theatrical release. His films are noted for their personal and original approach to issues of race, cultural identity, African history and contemporary politics.Teno’s films have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, and London. Many have been broadcast in Europe and featured in festivals across the United States. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California,Berkeley, a Copeland Fellow in Amherst College, and has lectured at numerous universities.
More about Jean-Marie Teno: https://vimeo.com/user5688138/about