Considered one of Burkina Faso’s high filmmakers discusses the artwork of cinema in Africa; what’s on the display screen and what’s neglected.
“To make a movie is simple; to make an excellent movie is warfare,” Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu as soon as stated. And for filmmakers in a rustic like Burkina Faso, mired by years of battle and instability, the challenges are even higher.
However regardless of the persevering with violence, a pan-African movie pageant within the capital Ouagadougou gathered filmmakers – resilient within the face of battle – to carry hope by means of artwork.
There, we caught up with one of many high Burkinabe filmmakers and explored the artwork of cinema in Africa; what’s on the display screen and what’s neglected. Apolline Traore talks to Al Jazeera.