An Introduction to African Cinema Dr Lizelle Bisschoff, University of Glasgow
Classic African Cinema Xala – Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1975 Touki Bouki – Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal, 1973 Yeelen – Souleymane Cisse, Mali, 1987 Yaaba – Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso, 1989 Cairo Station – Youssef Chahine, Egypt, 1958
New African short films Annual AiM Short Film Competition since 2008 More experimentation with form, aesthetics and theme 3SAI: A Rite of Passage, Paul Emmanuel, South Africa, 2009 Me Broni By (My White Baby), Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana, 2009 Mwanza the Great, Rungano Nyoni, Zambia, 2011 My Shoes, Anis Lassoued, Tunisia 2012
African documentary filmmaking To educate, to raise awareness, to reinterpret history and myth, to express individual and social identity, personal storytelling, popular culture Beats of the Antonov – Hajooj Kuka, Sudan, 2014 Miners Shot Down – Rehad Desai, South Africa, 2014
New regions Nairobi Half Life – David Gitonga, Kenya, 2012 Boda Boda Thieves - Donald Mugisha, James Tayler, Uganda, 2015
New genres Of Good Report – Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South Africa, 2013 Crumbs - Miguel Llansó, Ethiopia, 2015
The influence of technology Last Flight to Abuja – Obi Emelonye, Nigeria, 2012
Exilic and diasporic African cinema Experiences of exile and displacement Filmmakers such as Alain Gomis (France/Senegal), Mama Keita (Guinea/Vietnam), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mali/Mauritania), Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad/France), Andrew Dosunmu (Nigeria/USA), Sarah Bouyain (Burkina Faso/Senegal) Restless City - Andrew Dosunmu, USA, 2011