Review
Somewhere in the middle of Frontieres, a film that takes place mostly on the road and in several countries across western Africa, three women bond over the silent fart of a male traveller. The man is asleep and never gets a chance to defend himself. The silence of the man is a reversal of cinema’s […]
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Programme
2017 Lights Camera Africa Film Festival Programme:
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Review
If we take Bela Tarr’s Dancing in the Pub as an exciting encounter with silence, then Akin Omotoso’s A Hotel Called Memory, however, does something less aesthetic—if not outrightly absurd—with the form. Firstly, Mr. Omotoso tells us memory is synonymous with silence, and goes on to render memory dumb, cuts off a vital part of […]
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Press Releases
Lights Camera Africa!!! Film Festival will be premiering An Opera of the World, a film by Manthia Diawara, for the first time in Africa at the 7th edition of the Film Festival. According to the Founder, Ugoma Adegoke, An Opera of the World is 70 minutes of poetic, relevant, heart-wrenching and pride filling story telling […]
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