OUAGADOUGOU: A French-Senegalese director's film of a man which knows he'll almost certainly die at the conclusion of your day took the highest prize Saturday at Africa's biggest film celebration, Fespaco in Burkina Faso.
"Aujourd'hui" (Today) by means of director Alain Gomis comes after Satche, played by means of American reggae musician and slam poet Saul Williams, on what exactly he and those close for you to him in some manner know is definitely the last day of the life.The film had taken Fespaco's major prize, this Yennenga Etalon d'Or, at the closing ceremony on the festival's 23rd model before a great audience involving some 15, 000 persons in Burkina capital Ouagadougou's primary stadium.
Williams additionally won the most effective actor prize for the near-silent role inside film, which has been an recognized selection at the Berlin 2012 film festival.
Second prize traveled to "Yema" by means of Algerian director Djamila Sahraoui, the story of an mother whoever family is usually torn separate by a great Islamist attack. Sahraoui each directed and starred inside film.
Nearly 170 movies from all over the continent were shown during the week-long bi-annual celebration, which premiered in 1969.
The many juries in 2010 were presided by means of women, while using the jury to the
Etalon d'Or headed by French cinema legend Euzhan Palcy.
