As official co-partner AfricAvenir <\/i>attended the 1st edition of the Luxor African Film Festival<\/b><\/i>, held in Egypt from 21 to 28 February 2012<\/b>. AfricAvenir is proud to be associated to this festival. We take our hats off to the organizers of this first edition of the festival and we wish the festival all the best of luck for future editions. The festival successfully made its mark in the African Film Festival circus and can be congratulated for its overall achievements. The mission of the festival was a clear Pan-African<\/b> one, and this was, without doubt, achieved. The Pan-African vision was omnipresent. <\/p>\n
After being separated from the rest of the continent for decades, Egypt opened itself up to the rest of the continent and welcomed films from more than 25 African countries<\/b>. Most filmmakers from the participating countries attended. nFurthermore festival directors and programmers of Durban International Film Festival (South Africa), New York African Film Festival (USA), Festival Cine Africano Tarifa (Spain), International Images Film Festival for Women (Zimbabwe), Abu Dhabi Film Festival (United Arabic Emirates), Trois-Continentes Festival Nantes (France), International Mediterranean Film Festival for Short and Documentaries (Libya), Festival du Cinema Africain de Khouribga (Morocco), and African Perspectives (Namibia) honoured the festival and hence welcoming Luxor African Film Festival amongst its midst.nEgypt\u2019s desire to reunite with Africa was expressed throughout the festival. Observing the attendance and the wide range of participating filmmakers, festival directors, programmers, and the composition of the jury, one can only say, that aim was achieved. Underlining this was the presence of the Minister of Culture, Mr. Shakir\u2019 Abd Il-Hameed, the Governor of Luxor, Dr. Ezzat Sa\u2019d, and nine African Ambassadors accredited to Egypt, who travelled from Cairo to attend the opening ceremony at the Luxor Temple.<\/p>\n
The festival paid tribute to the Egyptian director Daoud Abdel-Sayed<\/b> and Ethiopian director Haile Gerima<\/b>, who both attended the festival and both received lifetime awards. nIn the words of Haile Gerima, who received his lifetime achievement award at the closing ceremony held on Tuesday, 28 February, the festival fulfilled the dream of Egyptian president Gamal Abd al-Nasser<\/b> to unite Egypt with the rest of the continent. Gerima had been waiting for this opening a lifetime and finally is seeing it being achieved. The festival certainly plays a pivotal role in this pan-African vision of Egypt newly found political energy. nThe jury for this category consisted of Abdelrahamane Sissako (Mauretania), Hend Sabri (Tunisia), and Mohamed Khan (Egypt).nIn the category short fiction and short documentary the awards went to the following:n<\/p>\n nThe jury for the short film\/documentary category consisted of Fanta Regina Nacro (Burkina Faso), Mustafa Al-Mesnaoui (Morocco), and Mama Ke\u00efta (Senegal).n As official co-partner AfricAvenir attended the 1st edition of the Luxor African Film Festival, held in Egypt from 21 to 28 February 2012. AfricAvenir is proud to be associated to this festival. We take our hats off to the organizers of this first edition of the festival and we wish the festival all the best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,106,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-filme","category-kolonialismus-und-dekolonisierung"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
At the closing ceremony, attended by the Governour of Luxor, the following winners were announced:nFor long feature and long documentary films:n<\/p>\n\n
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By Hans-Christian Mahnke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"