Cinema of Burundi:is going through a remarkable recovery phase. The Burundian capital Bujumbura hosted the Burundi International Film and Audiovisual Festival.[1]The Burundian Film and Audiovisual Arts Festival is the largest film festival in Burundi.[2]Burundian cinema is full of many films such as: Gito, l'ingrat, Mieux vaut mal vivre que mourir, Africa United (2010 film), The African Queen (film), Primeval (film) and Na Wewe. Among the most famous actors and directors: Michel-Ange Nzojibwami, Justine Bitagoye, Vénuste Maronk, Eddy Munyaneza and Léonce Ngabo. "Shake Hands With the Devil" won many awards. Documentary "Better to live than to die" was awarded at FESPACO 2007, and selected in the "Afrique Taille XL" festival in Brussels and the Louvain Festival.
Burundian films
Burundian comedy films
Gito, l'ingrat
(1992, Burundi, Feature film, fiction, comedy, French and Kirundi.[3]) Gito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his country. Gito is tested further by the alliance between his French girlfriend and his old sweetheart who join forces to teach Gito an unforgettable lesson.[4]
Burundian documentary films
Mieux vaut mal vivre que mourir
Written and directed by Justine Bitagoye & Gaudiose Nininahazwe.
A day in the life of a young boy who lives like the rest of the village to the rhythm of the dump. He grew up there, he fed himself there and now finds the objects of his trade there.
This film tenderly traces the difficult and humble life of the inhabitants of a dump. Better to live than to die is the result of training. This is the first achievement of the co-directors.[5]
Films set in Burundi
Africa United (2010 film)
A film that so dearly wants to be adored and adopted that it seems positively churlish to shoo it away. This gambols from HIV clinic to perilous jungle and from child soldiers to sex tourists, while the kids just keep on smiling, tackling all manner of horrors with extrovert am-dram stylings and metaphorical swigs of Sunny Delight.[6]On the way they pick up some new pals – including a child sex worker – while encountering adventures you certainly don't get in the average Disney flick: child soldier shoot-outs and HIV tests.[7]The makers do their best to paper over an undemanding script with bouncy music, quick cuts and musical montages, and you have to admire the young actors’ spirited acting.[8]
The African Queen (film)
One story, almost certainly apocryphal, is that birds escaped from the set of the movie The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, which was partly filmed in Isleworth studios in west London in 1951.[9][10]
Primeval (film)
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile,[11][12] in hopes of capturing the savage serial killer rumored to have claimed over 300 lives in this white-knuckle horror-thriller starring Dominic Purcell and Orlando Jones, and based on actual events.[13] Dubbed "Gustave" by the villagers, the croc is said to have dined on hundreds of humans over the years. Complicating matters is an African warlord who is even more bloodthirsty than the giant reptile.[14]
Films shot in Burundi
Africa United (2010 film)
Na Wewe
In a generally unexciting live-action field, Na Wewe, by Belgian filmmaker Ivan Goldschmidt, ..., since it's the only entry with any storytelling ambition or curiosity about real people in the big world. Set in Burundi in 1994, when civil war raged between Hutus and Tutsis.[15] A genocidal conflict opposing Hutus and Tutsis... .......the attack by the rebels of a minibus transporting ordinary passengers. A Kalashnikov bursts out. The bus stops, the passengers get off. There follows a «selection» separating Hutus and Tutsis. But who is a Hutu, who is a Tutsi? Na Wewe means You Too in Kirundi.[16]
Burundian film actors
Michel-Ange Nzojibwami
He is a Burundian actor and director. He is best known internationally for his performance as Colonel Théoneste Bagosora in the film Shake Hands With the Devil.
"Shake Hands With the Devil," is a biopic of former Canadian Lt.-Gen.[17] The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.[18] The film won many awards, including:
- BEST MOTION PICTURE for Laszlo Barna, Michael Donovan.
- ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY for Miroslaw Baszak.
- ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION for Roger Spottiswoode.
- ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE for David Hirschfelder.
- ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG for Valanga Khoza, David Hirschfelder.
- PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE for Michel Ange Nzojibwami.
- ADAPTED SCREENPLAY for Michael Donovan.[19]
Burundian film directors
Justine Bitagoye
He is an independent director and journalist at the RTNB, Master of History at the National University of Burundi, Master of environmental journalism (Makerere University -Uganda), Master of journalism Chair Unesco-Burundi.[20]
Cinematographic works already made:
- Documentary "Better to live than to die" (2006) co-directed and awarded at FESPACO 2007, selected in the "Afrique Taille XL" festival in Brussels and the Louvain Festival.
- Documentary "Kazuba -The rising sun" (2008).
- Documentary “RWAGASORE: VIE, COMBAT, ESPOIRS” (2012) co-directed with Pascal Capitolin.[21]
Vénuste Maronk
Filmmaker, actor, singer Maronko Venuste was born in September 1992, in Burundi, East Africa. His short film Bad life won at a film festival in Burundi the prize for best film and the prize for best sound.
Bad Life is also in competition for the Guido Huysmans Prize and the Young African Filmmakers Prize in Leuven Belgium.[22]
Eddy Munyaneza
Eddy Munyaneza is a young filmmaker from Burundi.[23] Munyaneza became fascinated in the process of filmmaking at a young age, despite the lack of cinematic resources in Burundi.[24]From 2005, he directed several institutional documentaries and advertisements.[25] After releasing his first feature-length documentary Histoire d’une haine manquée in 2010, Munyaneza became one of Burundi's most promising filmmakers.[23]
Léonce Ngabo
He was born in 1951 in Burundi.[26]He is a director and writer, known for Gito, l'ingrat (1992), Histoire du Burundi (2010) and A Sunday in Kigali (2006).[27]He has a degree in chemistry from the University of Algiers, director of the National School of Telecommunications of Burundi, founder of the Association of Musicians of Burundi, director of Gito’ingrat (1992), the first Burundian feature film.[26] He is the founder and the current president of both FESTICAB and EAFN, is a musician and a filmmaker with a classic directorial debut called Gito (1993), which was the first ever feature film in the history of Burundian cinema. When the civil war started in 1993, Ngabo went into exile in Canada where he worked in Quebec from 1996 to 2000, and for Vues d’Afrique Festival in Montreal. In 2006 he returned to Bujumbura and founded FESTICAB.[28]
International Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual of Burundi
international interest has risen in African arts and culture, including cinema, realised by older and newer generations of African filmmakers. This is why we have seen the inauguration of newly born African-themed festivals across the African continent and also in Europe, Asia and the two Americas[29]
FESTICAB is a cultural and cinematic event organized every year. Its main objective is to promote and disseminate images made by Burundian filmmakers in particular and foreigners at national and international level. Mugisha indicates that some challenges related to financial problems will be solved during this 6th edition of FESTICAP. There was a problem of communication between participants and organizers because of the lack of enough means. “Preparations will be in time and participants will get sufficient time to submit their cinema films,” he points out. Moreover, many movie professionals, directors and producers will be invited, and may finance some of Burundian films with better scenario after their own assessment. The jury will be composed of talented people from different countries, something which is a good opportunity for Burundian filmmakers to have contacts with important persons.[30]
where the seventh edition of the International Festival of iCinema and Audiovisual in Burundi( FESTICAB) took place between 24 and 30 April. FESTICAB works in the context of the East African Film Network( EAFN), which was born at FESTICAB 2011 as a direct result of the implementation of The East African Community( EAC), the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.[29]
The Festival's artistic programming, which is always innovative, guarantees its editorial line and preserves links with the profession: directors, actors, producers, broadcasters, etc. All the stories are about Africa. Touching, revolting and sometimes even shocking images that authenticate the formidable adventure of African man.
And always in order to strengthen the capacities of young Burundian creators, professionals from the countries of the North (United States, Canada, France, Belgium) will lead training workshops in the various cinema professions, thanks to the support of bilateral and multilateral cooperation.[31]
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