Rich, eclectic program for Hergla cinema Festival
TUNISIAONLINENEWS- Since its inception in 2005, at the initiative of the Africa-Mediterranean Cultural Association, the “blue and white” village of “Hergla”, a locality situated on the Sahel coastline, a stone throw away from Sousse holds each year its cinema festival. This year’s edition will take place from July 31 to August 6.
The 6th edition will be marked by a rich, albeit eclectic program featuring the 3D film “Il Volo” (the theft), directed by Wim Wenders in 2010, the animated short film “Dog History” of the French-Armenian Serge Avedikian, who won the “Palme d’Or” at the 2010 Cannes Festival and the Tunisian short film “Good Year” by Khedija Lemkhecher.
The 2010 guest of honor will be the Senegalese singer Ismael Lo.
The festival will also honor Burkina Faso’s Sotigui Kouyate, an actor who died on April 17, 2010 through the screening of the film “The genesis” by the Malian filmmaker Sheikh Oumar Sissoko, a film in which Kouyate had played a leading role alongside two great figures of Mandingo culture: Balla Moussa Keita and Salif Keita.
A rich program dedicated to Haiti is also on the menu with screening of the film “Carte Blanche” by Anne Lescot”, an anthropologist and director of Haitian origin, who also signed a documentary titled “ Far Horizons”.
A special evening will be dedicated to the late Tunisian diplomat Hedi Annabi who died following the earthquake that struck Port au Prince on January12, 2010, through the screening of a documentary by Arnold Antonin “Chronicle of a disaster foretold: Haiti Apocalypse Now”.
The Dean of the European film directors, Manoel de Oliveira will also be invited to these meetings. He will present his first film “Aniki Bobo” which was released in 1942.
A concert will be given by the Fado Orfedo Universitario do Porto followed by a screening of “Arena” a short film of a young recent Portuguese director Joao Salaviza who won the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at the 2009 Cannes Festival.
A selection of short films and documentaries by young African and Mediterranean filmmakers will also be showcased..
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