Homage To Tahar Cheriaa Film

Mohamed Challouf | Tunisia 2015 | 1h10m | Arabic, French and English with English subtitles | 15

Homage To Tahar Cheriaa

Synopsis

This documentary is a colourful portrait of Tahar Cheriaa, the undisputed father of pan-Africanism in film and the founder of the Carthage Film Days, the first film festival in Africa and the Arab World, established in 1966. The film charts his journey from the amateur film clubs to the Ministry of Culture and the Third Cinema focus of the Carthage film festival. He died in 2010, and remains celebrated as an indefatigable militant of Arab and African cinemas. The film also celebrates Cheriaa’s pan-African friendships with some of the most important filmmakers on the continent. It shows his discussions with the pioneers of African cinema, with some never-before-seen footage of star directors (some whose work feature in our Africa’s Lost Classics strand) - Ousmane Sembene, Med Hondo, Haile Gerima and Ateyyat El Abnoudy, the first Arab woman to win one of Carthage’s main prizes.

Plus short

The Sandwich (Al-sandawich)

Ateyyat El Abnoudy | Egypt 1975 | 12m | No dialogue | 15

As children play, work and help prepare a meal, we witness everyday life in a small rural town in Upper Egypt that seems to have escaped the passage of time - an illusion that is shattered in the film's final frames.

This screening is part of AiM’s focus on Africa’s Lost Classics, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).  

  

Showings

Edinburgh / Mon 30 Oct / 4pm
Free and non-ticketed / Edinburgh College of Art, Hunter Lecture Theatre