Flim Festival Fosters Hope in Violence-Torn Burkina Faso DeutscheWelle: BurkinaFaso Fespaco
Sira, a film directed by Apolline Traoré, is in the running for the Yennenga Gold Stallion at the 28th Fespaco.As conflict and violence spread across the Sahel, Africa's biggest film festival, hosted in Burkina Faso, promotes fellowship in times of crisis.
According to the organizers, inviting Mali as guest of honor to FESPACO was due to its geographical and socio-cultural proximity to Burkina Faso.," FESPACO advisor Guy Desire Yameogo told DW."The choice of the country was not dictated by politics or external pressure. Mali has won the Etalon de Yennenga award three times.""At a time when both countries are going through the same problems, it seemed necessary to turn to a brother country, a friend country.
"We have been through this stage, he said."At one point, in Mali, every day villages were razed to the ground." Burkinabe diplomat Antoine Somdah hopes that Africans can still enjoy the cultural element of the FESPACO festival amid difficult times.
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