Africa's Largest Film Festival Focuses On Strong Women

Africa's Largest Film Festival Focuses On Strong Women DeutscheWelle: Africa

. For German viewers, the drama is far removed from them, yet for Apolline Traore's compatriots in Burkina Faso, it is a bloody reality.

And even then, she wants to focus on one of the many pressing social problems again."I learned my craft in the US," she says,"but I can't make people laugh in my films, only cry. I just have to show what abuses there are and what people have to suffer. For me, it's also a kind of therapy." However, it is not easy to organize a film festival in a country where many inhabitants live in poverty and suffer from recurring droughts. There are only four cinemas -- far too few for the large crowds at FESPACO. Thus, the organizers have improvised and simply screen them as open-air films.

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