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Fespaco 2011: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun talks about his film

Chadian director of "A man who cries," Jury Prize at Cannes in 2010, led a master class on directing the actor, 28 February in Ouagadougou.

They came many, aspiring filmmakers, at the Higher Institute of Image and Sound (Isis) in Ouagadougou Monday, February 28, to attend a master class on "Problems of quality of staging and directing the actor in African films, organized by Africalia, an association funded by the Belgian Cooperation. But what puts a hundred students film, not so much the theme that the teacher of this course the public: the journalist and filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the first African to win the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2010 and the second African to be awarded at this festival with "A man who shouts" (2010, 92mn), also in competition at the Festival Pan-African film and television (Fespaco) in the feature film category.
For four hours, requiring Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has not ceased to be angry and be reconciled with his public. He first criticized the delay by students, then he almost tear the little hair he wears on his head when questions "Unwelcome" were put to him, and he was downright angry when students have had trouble throwing the screening of an excerpt from the film " Expectations "(2008, 28mn). Between crises, the filmmaker is said maverick criticized: "African cinema is essentially a caricature." He cites as evidence the numerous films condemning the immigration of Africans, so conveying the position of Northern governments. And yet, he said, Westerners have had to conquer the world to develop. Filmmaker 50 years is those who have crossed the mountains and seas to find their way. Fleeing civil war in Chad, he finds himself in Cameroon in 1980, then to Libya. Finally, he migrated to France where he still lives today.
on directing the actor, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun said that "we can not transmit the art of directing actors." Nevertheless, he shared his experience after a dozen films: "I leave plenty of room for improvisation ... It is important that the film raises the question of inner drama. For me, the best director is the one that disappears completely ... If no issues, no movies. And as said Sacha Guitry, there are no small roles, only small actors. " To be a good director, he gave his recipe: "A good general knowledge, talent and imagination." All this, along with much rigor.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun ended with a little dig at the site of Fespaco: "" In 41 years, we Fespaco despair with its disorganization and incompetence of the people who work there. " He advised students to think outside the box and dream big. With this last recommendation "I hope you do not have the syndrome of Cameroon", in this case, lax.
Stephanie Dongmo Ouagadougou

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Fespaco 2011: The Saga of the Bambara kingdom of Segou

The historical series "The kings of Segou" Boubacar Sidibé Malian director who tells the foundation and the climax of this kingdom of the 18th century is competing in the fiction category Tv

history of the Bambara kingdom of Segou has become a legend. Several historians have tried to tell it, in different versions with common denominators for the drama and wonder. The writer Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe had already written the fall of Segou in the eponymous novel. Boubacar Sidibe, he has chosen to trace its genesis in a series of three television seasons of 21 episodes of 26 minutes, "Kings of Segou," produced by the Office de Radio Television du Mali (ORTM) Brico-films Sarama and movies. The series written and directed by Boubacar Sidibe brush over 105 years, history of the four kings who led Segou in its heyday: Biton, N'Golo, and Da Monzon.
The plot of the first season plunges us in a Malian village of the 18th century. By a result of serendipity, Biton Coulibaly, a peaceful hunter, finds himself enthroned as head of the village to protect it from thieves. Become powerful thanks to the jinn, he foiled the plots of his enemies. If men have the best role in this series, women are no less present, and especially manipulative. At this point Boubacar Sidibe told to one of his characters: "Never man can not understand the many facets of women". Humor fierce Sidibe helps refresh this historical series. This is particularly true when, in the first episode, a husband runs off with the arrival robbers abandoning his wife. Here, nothing has been left to chance: the sets are magnificent natural or implanted, the big shots that the director preferred the term used to enter characters in a society where silence is golden. The series is honorably worn by its players, including Kary B. Coulibaly, superb in the role of the griot in which he had excelled in "Dou" by the same director. A series in which Boubacar Sidibe has drawn heavily on players' Kings of Segou, the actors play knowing French does not run the streets in Mali, according explanations.
To address the unspoken history and the poor results of the literature search he conducted for a year, Boubacar Sidibe started his imagination, with varying degrees of success. Thus, long fake nails were placed on the fingers of the jinn, the risk of touching the grotesque and caricature. Kings of Segou in interest in history opens a new genre in TV series in Africa. For the director, the past provides insight into the future.
This series is competing in the TV Drama category at the 22nd Fespaco. In the past, Boubacar Sidibe had won two awards at Fespaco: Best Fiction Film TV in 2001 with "Seko" and in 2003 with "Sanoudje.
Stephanie Dongmo Ouagadougou