Dossier of African cinema

At the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands:

The twelfth edition of Africa in the Picture, with as main theme “Crisis, what crisis?”, will be held from 9 to 14 September 2009 . During the festival, more than 50 films produced in Africa or by directors with African roots will be shown in Amsterdam and six other Dutch cities.

Africa in the Picture’s founder and former director, Mariët Bakker, will give a talk on The African Documentary at a seminar hosted by the African Studies Centre on 3 September 2009 in Leiden. During the talk she will show clips from recent documentaries and from the Africa in the Picture archive.

To coincide with the seminar and the film festival, the Library, Documentation and Information Department of the African Studies Centre has compiled the present web dossier. The dossier is based on the ASC library collection and is a sequel to the dossier on African Cinema compiled in September 2003

Part of the Africa in the Picture film archive is held by the ASC library, which also maintains its own film collection of more than 1000 titles.

The website is here.

H/T SocioLingo Africa.