Le Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) est né en 2003 à l’initiative d’un groupe d’étudiants en anthropologie visuelle de l’université de Montréal. Ce festival unique en son genre et gratuit pour le public, représente une des rares plateformes de diffusion et de promotion du cinéma ethnographique au Canada. Grâce à la généreuse implication bénévole de centaines d’étudiants issus des universités Concordia, McGill, UdeM et de nombreux partenaires, le Festival a réuni depuis seize ans plusieurs milliers de spectateurs animés par la passion du cinéma, de l’anthropologie visuelle, ou simplement par la curiosité de découvrir des pépites du genre ethnographique.
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Followed by a panel moderated by Françoise Naudillon with Erika Nimis, Isaac Bazié, Alexie Tcheuyap, Youssoufa Halidou Harouna, Rahmatou Keita
A king has the habit of listening to the wishes of his people whilst walking in disguise on the streets of his kingdom. One day he overhears two brothers daydreaming of marrying the king’s daughters, even if it meant being beheaded one year later. The weddings take place and one of the brothers is decapitated one year later. The other one escapes at his wife’s insistence. On a long journey full of surprising incidents our hero becomes king of a village, with wives and subjects. But his earlier promise haunts him, and in order to save his family he accepts to be sacrificed.
Oumarou Ganda
Oumarou Ganda (1935 – 1 January 1981) was a Nigerien director and actor who helped bring African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s. As the winner of the Best Film award at the first annual FESPACO film festival, upon his death FESPACO began awarding an African Feature Film Award named the Oumarou Ganda Prize. (Wikipedia)
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