Picture Festival: Images from France, February 10-14th 2009 @ Confederation

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The Sixth edition of the Festival Images from France ' will demonstrate a series of fiction pictures exhibiting Franco-African dealings from assorted sociocultural views.

INDIGENES
by Rachid Bouchared, ( 2006 - 2h08 ) historical play
Tue. 10th @ 6: 30pm
Victor of the 2007 Csar Awarding, Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Picture at the 2007 Oscars, Victor of the Best Thespian at the 2006 Cannes Picture Festival

1943. Although they hold ne'er posed pes on French grease, four immature Algerian soldiers experience it is their obligation to enlist on with the other autochthonous soldieries '. Their stately intent is to struggle for the release of their motherland from the Nazi enemy harry Europe and the cosmos. The flick retraces the journeying of these buried heroes demonstrating the unfairnesses they confronted and the fearless braveness they exposed.

VOISINS VOISINES
by Malik Chibane, ( 2005 - 1h26 ) comedy
Married. 11th @ 6: 30pm

A rapper is hotfoot against timehe holds simply three years to indite his lyrics; otherwise, he can tell adieu to his progress from the record company. When he eventually chance inspiration rightly his threshold, in the frequently risible battles of his neighbors in the Mozart Estate public housing, he lays the phase for a lively hip-hop fable, placed to the round of the banlieues.

NHA FALA
by Botany Gomes, ( 2003 - 1h30 ) musical, comedy
Thu. 12th @ 6: 30pm

Before leaving for Europe to engage farther surveys, Vita, assures her mother that she will ne'er sing. A home fable holds it that any woman who sings will be sworn and will exit. In Paris, Vita encounters Pierre, a immature instrumentalist with whom she falls smitten and gets to sing. Pierre is moved by her gift and converts her to enter.

MOI ET MON BLANC
by S Pierre Yameogo, ( 2003 - 1h32 ) play
Fri. 13th @ 6: 30pm
Victor of the RFI & Audience Awarding at FESPACO 2003
The flick will be followed by a argumentation

The flick unknots the narrative of Mamadi, a immature Burkinab who - in order to fund his survey at the Sorbonne - takes upwardly a nighttime line at a parking garage, where he encounters fellow attender Franck, a white Parisian. The two strike upwardly a unusual and funny friendship after they find a hoard of drugs and encounter themselves embroiled in the games of a grouping of Parisian mobsters, coercing them to head to Mamadi 's native Ouagadougou where they confront as taxing, but different obstructions.

KIRIKOU ET LES BETES SAUVAGES
by Michel Ocelot et and Bndicte Galup ( 2005 - 1h15 ) aliveness
Sat. 14th @ 3: 00pm
Original soundtrack nominated for the 2007 Victoires de la Musique '

The resourceful small Kirikou returns in a charming followup to his 1998 escapade. Now, the immature Senegalese hero must salvage his settlement from supernatural dangers in four new narrations... and while Kirikou is little in size, his braveness is tremendous! Based on West African folktale, this alive picture includes music by Youssou N'Dour, Rokia Traore, and Manu Dibango.