The 32nd edition of the Festival International du Film Francophone (FIFF) will be held in Namur from 29 September to 6 October 2017. In addition to the 146 films scheduled for screening, the FIFF offers many other activities for young audiences or professionals in the sector. The FIFF and Africalia will collaborate for this 2017 edition on the Manufacture de Namur and the organisation of citizen workshops as part of the FIFF Campus activities.
The Manufacture de Namur
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The 32nd edition of the Festival International du Film Francophone (FIFF) will be held in Namur from 29 September to 6 October 2017. In addition to the 146 films scheduled for screening, the FIFF offers many other activities for young audiences or professionals in the sector. The FIFF and Africalia will collaborate for this 2017 edition on the Manufacture de Namur and the organisation of citizen workshops as part of the FIFF Campus activities.
The Manufacture de Namur is a workshop bringing together students and instructors from French film schools. Its aim is to help strengthen a genuine network of film schools in the French-speaking world and promote exchanges between students. The programme includes lessons in film and various encounters at which participants will receive practical advice for a more successful start to their journey as young film professionals.
Seven young film students between the ages of 18 and 25 from all over the French-speaking world have been invited to attend the third edition of La Manufacture which will take place on 5 and 6 october 2017 in the Palais des Congrès of Namur. They will be supervised by Isabelle Fauvel and Hakim Mao of Initiative Film (France). The students will also sit on the Émile Cantillon Jury, which will select the winner of the Bayard Award for the best first film.
Isabelle Kouraogo, a student at the ESAV in Marrakech from Ivory Coast , will be attending the Manufacture thanks to the partnership between FIFF and Africalia. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in audiovisual studies in Abidjan, she decided to study film and enrolled on a film-making programme at the Ecole supérieure des Arts Visuels in Marrakech. She dreams of making socially engaged films, as according to her film is the best way to translate our emotions into images.
More info : FIFF Manufacture de Namur ou Jury Émile Cantillon (in French)
During the festival, Citizens’ Workshops will be held following screenings involving films from the South or themes relevant to the South. The films chosen for this educational part of the festival will help open the eyes of the younger generation to the world around them.
In 2017, the FIFF and Africalia (and other partners depending on the workshops) will put on 4 workshops.
· Vos espoirs pour demain… (29 september at 9:45 AM : screening of Wallay by Beni Goldblat)
· Ressources naturelles et conflit en RDC (5 october at 9:45 AM : screening of Maman colonelle by Dieudo Hamadi)
· Violences sexuelles comme arme de guerre en RDC (5 october at 9:45 AM : screening of Maman colonelle by Dieudo Hamadi)
· Dessine-moi ton histoire (6 october at 9:30 AM : screenings of Carnet de guerre du Collectif Syrie and Migration of Sylvaine Jenny and Philipe Vu)
More info: Catalogue FIFF Campus (in French)
