Cinema of the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic is one of the world's poorest countries and the film industry is correspondingly small. The first film made in CAR appears to have been Les enfants de la danse, a short French-made ethnographic documentary of 1945. Joseph Akouissone was the first Central African to make a film in the country, with his 1981 documentary Un homme est un homme;^[1] he was followed by the documentaries made in the 1980s by Léonie Yangba Zowe.^[2]^[3] Since then a series of ongoing conflicts and economic crises have severely limited the potential growth of film-making in the country. The first feature-length drama made in the country was Le silence de la forêt, a 2003 CAR-Gabon-Cameroon co-production about the Biaka people.^[4]^[5]^[6]

List of Central African films[]

This is a sortable list of films produced in the CAR.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1958	The Roots of Heaven (film)	John Huston	Documentary short	American
1960	boganda films	boganda	Documentary short	English
1970	Les enfants de la danse	&	Documentary short	English title: Children of the Dance
1978	Safrana or Freedom of Speech	Joseph Akouissone, Med Hondo	Documentary short
1981	Un homme est un homme	Joseph Akouissone	Documentary short	English title: A Man is a Man
1985	Lengue	Léonie Yangba Zowe	Documentary short
1985	Nzale	Léonie Yangba Zowe	Documentary short
1985	Yangba bolo	Léonie Yangba Zowe	Documentary short
1987	Paroles de sages	Léonie Yangba Zowe	Documentary short	English title: Words of Sages
1990	Echoes from a Sombre Empire	Werner Herzog	Documentary	English title: Echoes From a Sombre Empire
1992	Bogande	Bogande
1993	Un Pygmée dans la baignoire	Léandre-Alain Baker
1993		Léandre-Alain Baker	Drama
1995	Tatie pouvait vivre. Video, color,	Opportune Aymadji	Drama
1996		Léandre-Alain Baker	Documentary short
1998	Au bout du couloir	Léandre-Alain Baker	Documentary short
2003	Le silence de la forêt	Bassek Ba Kobhio & Didier Ouénangaré	Drama	English title: The Silence of the Forest
2004		Léandre-Alain Baker	Documentary short
2005	Paris la métisse	Léandre-Alain Baker	Documentary short
2006		Léandre-Alain Baker	Drama
2007	Ramata (film)	Léandre-Alain Baker	Documentary short
2008	35 Shots of Rum	Claire Denis	Documentary short
2009	World of Witchcraft	Daniel Bogado	Documentary short
2009		Jean-Pierre Bekolo	Documentary short
2009			Documentary short
2010	A Scraming man	Mahamat Saleh Haroun	Documentary short
2010	White Material	Claire Denis Marie NDiaye	Documentary short
2011			Drama	American drama filmed partly in CAR
2011	The Ambassador (2011 film)	Mads Brügger	Documentary short	American
2011	Love and Bruises	Lou Ye	Documentary short
2012	magleorie kolisso	magleorie kolisso	Documentary short
2012	Georgette Florence Koyt	Georgette Florence Koyt-Deballé	Documentary short
2013	Aya of Yop City	Marguerite Abouet Clément Oubrerie	Documentary short
2014	chimende Loseba	freed yapandee	Documentary short
2015	freed yapandee	freed yapandee	Documentary short
2016	Nascent	&	Documentary short
2017		Sarafina	Documentary short
2017	Ozagin	Dany Grepande	Drama
2017	Chambre 1	Leila Thiam	Documentary short
2018	Elephant Path: Njaia Njoku	Todd McGrain	Documentary
2018	Yé mbi	Yémbi , Par Hermann LINGANGUE	Documentary short
2019	demain je pare en	Yann harris Dawro	Drama
2019	Camille (film, 2019)		Documentary short

Films made[]

A Pygmy in the Bathtub ,

short film, 1993. Broadcast: Canal Plus, TV5, CFI Festival: Montreal, Fespaco, Amiens…

La Couture de Paris ,

short film, 1995. Distribution: CFI, Canal + Horizon, TV5, Festivals: Fespaco, Amiens, Montréal, Namur.

Au Bout du couloir ,

short film, 1999. Festivals: Montreal, Amiens.

Diogenes to Brazzaville ,

Documentary film, 2004. Portrait of the Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi. Broadcast: TV 10, CFI, Canal + Horizon, TV5, Festivals: Vue d'Afrique Montreal, Amiens, Fespaco, Namur, Milan, Lisbon.

Tchicaya, the little leaf that sings its country ,

Documentary film, 2004. Portrait of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U'Tamsi. Diffusion: Images Plus, CFI, Canal + Horizon, Festivals: Fespaco, Amiens.

Films[]

Yangba bolo, 1985
Lengue, 1985
N'Zale, 1986
Paroles de sages, 1987

Filmography[]

Le silence de la forêt [The Silence of the Forest], 2003

Central African Republic film directors[]

*Didier Ouénangaré

*Léandre-Alain Baker

Léonie Yangba Zowe
Joseph Akouissone
Maurice Alezra
Béatrice Boffety
Patrick Demeester
Georges Durupt
Micheline Durupt
Richard
Bernard Guenau
Gérard Guérin
Charles Lescaut
harles Leaut
Chantal Monstile
Denis Parrichon
Moussa Ndongo
Camille Lepage
Andre kolingbe
bocha Sango
Alex Ballu
Heritter Acteur
Djimon Hounsou
Étienne Goyémidé
droite Eric Sabe ,
Ida Mabaya ,
lesultan de dekoa
Hippolyte Donossio
Ousna Ousnabee
DRAMAN'S PRODUCTION
NGAISSIO Abdoul Karim
ASSANAS TEKATA Simon Patrick
LAMINE Odilon Alias Cheguevara
Andy melo
kailou Sylla
Nicna Meunrisse
Boris Lojkine
Didier Flort Ouén
Jm wolf Gang
lzy Orphelin
Brown Goh
Eric Yelemou
Lassa Kossangue
Hurel BenInga

References[]

^ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 29-30
^ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 493
^ Schmidt, Nancy (1997). "Sub-Saharan African Women FIlmmakers". In Kenneth W. Harrow (ed.). With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema. Rodopi. pp. 169–70. ISBN 90-420-0154-2.
^ JC Woodfrok (2006) Culture and Customs of the Central African Republic, Greenwood Press, pg. 150
^ Blandine Stefanson (2014). "Literary Adaptation". In Blandine Stefanson; Sheila Petty (eds.). Directory of World Cinema Africa. Vol. 39. Intellect Books. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-78320-391-8.
^ Valérie K. Orlando (2017). New African Cinema. Rutgers University Press. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-8135-7957-3.
^ IMDb - CAR, retrieved 18 December 2019
^ IMDb - Filming location: CAR, retrieved 18 December 2019
^ Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala

[1] Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 29-30

[2] Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala, p. 493

[Harrow1997-3] Schmidt, Nancy (1997). "Sub-Saharan African Women FIlmmakers". In Kenneth W. Harrow (ed.). With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema. Rodopi. pp. 169–70. ISBN 90-420-0154-2.

[4] JC Woodfrok (2006) Culture and Customs of the Central African Republic, Greenwood Press, pg. 150

[StefansonPetty2014-5] Blandine Stefanson (2014). "Literary Adaptation". In Blandine Stefanson; Sheila Petty (eds.). Directory of World Cinema Africa. Vol. 39. Intellect Books. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-78320-391-8.

[Orlando2017-6] Valérie K. Orlando (2017). New African Cinema. Rutgers University Press. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-8135-7957-3.

[7] IMDb - CAR, retrieved 18 December 2019

[8] IMDb - Filming location: CAR, retrieved 18 December 2019

[9] Various (2000) Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire, Editions Karthala

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