Ouagadougou prepares for Africa's Oscars
The jury of the bi-annual Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, will announce on Saturday which film gets the coveted African Oscar, The Golden Stallion of Yennenga.
In all there are 19 films from Africa vying for FESPACO's top honour. Here is an overview of some of the movies tipped to win.
"Teza," Ethiopia 2008, directed by Haile Gerima - A frontrunner according to many, having already won a jury prize and a prize for best screenplay at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, Teza revolves around an idealistic scientist who returns to Ethiopia during the brutal 1970s-1980s regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu.
Beautifully filmed, "Teza" switches between present and past in a series of flashbacks between protagonists time studying in Germany in the 1970s, Ethiopia in the 1980s, and the present.
It deals with big themes: emigration, return, dictatorship, racism, war and the position of women without getting preachy.
Source: Ouagadougou
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