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Cine africano en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
From 31 March to 9 April 2017, the 17thLas Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival will offer a programme consisting of about a hundred films. Almost two hundred sessions are being arranged so that the films can talk to each other and hold discussions among themselves, with the viewer as interpreter and mediator.
This year, Casa África is once again collaborating with this prestigious festival, which has carved a niche in the international arena, providing the participation of the Congolese actress Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, star of the film Felicité by French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis. The film will form part of the Official Section for competition in the festival after winning the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.
Félicité is an independent woman who works as a singer in the Congolese city of Kinshasa. When she takes the stage, she is able to leave behind the world and her daily concerns, while the audience catches the infectious rhythm of her music and the power of her voice. But one day, a serious accident changes her life and forces her to ask for help.
This film will not be the only representative of the prolific African cinema industry; during the festival, we are also invited to see titles such as Mali Blues and Casamance. La banda sonora de un viaje (Casamance the soundtrack to a journey).
Since its inception, Casa África has supported the dissemination of African cinema in Spain as a proven tool for spreading cultural values. Film is an extraordinary educational resource that can be used in the design of teaching methods suitable for the times we live in.
Without doubt, film is a medium that offers different perspectives and tools to overcome obstacles. It immerses us in the emotion and makes us feel, helping us to work on perception, intelligence and critical judgment, not to mention the enormous capacity of cinema to convey knowledge of situations and social events in a direct, vivid and real way. Cinema not only stimulates people’s intelligence; it also connects with their emotions generating motivations, reasons and arguments that facilitate the commitment of people to change.