The director was distinguished Saturday for his movie “the wife of the grave” on the 27th Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou.
Le Monde with AFP
The Somali director Ahmed Khadar won Saturday, October 23 The Yennenga Golden Stall of the 27th Pan-African Festival of Ouagadougou Cinema and Television (Fespaco) for his film the wife of the gravedigger.
The young 40-year-old director did not take part in the fence ceremony of the festival in the Burkinabe capital. The president of the jury who awarded him the prize, Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako, said that “for any African filmmaker is the most beautiful price we can have, it’s a whole pride”.
17 films were in the running in the feature fiction category to win the Yennenga golden stall, the Supreme Fespaco reward and succeeding The Mercy of Rwandan Joel Karekezi, awarded in 2019.
Special prices
Friday night had been unveiled the winners of the best TV series and animated films, and awarded about fifteen special prices.
With Walabok, how is the youth?, Senegalese Fatoumata Kane won the first prize of the best TV series, while the Gabonese Samantha Biffot got the second prize with Mami Wata: the mystery of ouveza “.” The best African series has been a surprise for the jury. We were unanimous because it is a very singular series that mixes documentary and fiction, tour for years, “said the president of the jury” Series TV and Animation Films “, Frédéric Lavigne.
In the Animation Films category, AkplokPlobito, a movie of the Togolese Ingrid Agbo on the stigmatization of women, got the first prize. The second was awarded to the Dinkan Valley, Guinean Mohamed Kaba.
With three special prizes, including the best filmmaker of West Africa, for his Zinder documentary film that deals with gang violence in the ourselves of his hometown, the Nigerian director Aïcha Macky was strongly applauded.
The three lascars, of Boubacar Diallo, only Burkinabe movie in official competition in the feature category, has obtained one of the most coveted special prices, that of the integration of the Economic Development Community of Africa West.
In the Short Filmage, the Thomas Sankara Prize, awarded by the African Gilde of Directors and Producers, rewarded Tuk-Tuk from Egyptian Mohamed Kheidr, who also wins the Burkina National Lottery Chance Price Faso.
