30/05/2014
Letter from Africa: Focusing on conflict
In our series of letters from African journalists, filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers the role of cameras in conflict. There was an interesting moment at the recent Cannes Film Festival when the Mauritania-born film director Abderrahmane Sissako was answering questions after screening his film Timbuktu - The Silence of Fear. Continue reading the main story ldquo;Start Quote The true liberation was for those people who in their heads sang these songs and this music that had been bannedrdquo; End Quote Abderrahmane Sissako Film director Timbuktu film praised at Cannes The film is a fictional retelling of those uncertain months when jihadis took over this ancient town in Mali and...
