{"id":23515,"date":"2026-02-12T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/culture\/serie-de-films-lafrique-francophone\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:13:58","slug":"film-series-francophone-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/en\/francophonie\/film-series-francophone-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Series \u2013 Francophone Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout March, the French Institute of Finland and Cinema Orion invite you on a journey through Francophone African cinema with six films from different countries and eras. This program highlights intimate and political stories, striking aesthetics, and the diversity of forms, themes, and voices that showcase the vitality of African cinema.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>The tickets will soon be available on the website of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemaorion.fi\/\"><strong>Cinema Orion<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 25%;\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-23502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/La-vie-est-belle-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 75%;\">\r\n<p><strong>March 2 at 7:40 PM \u2013 Life is beautiful (La vie est belle, 1987) <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Young Kourou (Papa Wemba) leaves his village to pursue a music career in Kinshasa, Congo. From one adventure to another, he becomes a servant, a shoeshiner, a street singer, and a trusted aide to a nightclub owner. When he meets the beautiful Kabibi, it\u2019s love at first sight \u2014 but he isn\u2019t the only one captivated by her charm\u2026<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 25%;\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-23486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sous-les-figues.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 75%;\">\r\n<p><strong>March 8 at 2 PM \u2013 Under the figs (Sous les figues, 2022)\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><em>Screening for International Women\u2019s Day <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Amid the fig trees during the summer harvest, young women and men explore new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, and form \u2014 and sometimes flee \u2014 deeper relationships.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 25%;\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-23489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Nationalite-immigre.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 75%;\">\r\n<p><strong>March 9 at 7.45 PM \u2013 Immigrant Nationality (Nationalit\u00e9 immigr\u00e9, 1975) <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant laborers, he is assigned the hardest and most dangerous jobs. Sidi and his fellow workers are systematically and continuously exploited, both by their employers and by their own compatriots, who constantly offer fake work permits and shoddy housing sold at inflated prices for the right to sleep. Yet, faced with racism and economic exploitation, the immigrant workers come together, organize, and resist\u2026<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 25%;\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-23492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Timbuktu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 75%;\">\r\n<p><strong>March 16 at 7.40 PM \u2013 Timbuktu (2013) <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>In Mali, not far from Timbuktu, which has fallen under the rule of religious extremists, Kidane leads a simple and peaceful life in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, his 12-year-old young shepherd. In town, the inhabitants live powerless under the reign of terror imposed by jihadists who have taken control of their faith. Music and laughter, cigarettes, and even football are forbidden\u2026 Women have become shadows, trying to resist with dignity. Makeshift courts hand down absurd and tragic sentences every day. For a time, Kidane and his family seem spared from the chaos in Timbuktu. But their fate changes the day Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who attacked his favorite cow. He must then confront the new laws of these foreign occupiers\u2026<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 25%;\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-23495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tug-of-War.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 75%;\">\r\n<p><strong>March 23 at 7.40 PM \u2013 Tug of War (2021) <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Adapted from the award-winning Swahili novel by Adam Shafi, set in 1950s Zanzibar: a romance buffeted by the harsh tides of British colonial rule and the local militant struggle for liberation. Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmine, a young Indo-Zanzibari woman fleeing an oppressive arranged marriage. Passion and revolution collide\u2026<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 25%;\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-23498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Les-empreintes-du-vent.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 75%;\">\r\n<p><strong>March 30 mars at 7.40 PM \u2013 The marks of wind (Les empreintes du vent, 2024) <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>A recent and deeply contemporary film, <em>Les empreintes du vent<\/em> offers an intimate reflection on memory, exile, and transmission. Through a minimalist approach and poetic storytelling, Layla Triki invites the audience to listen to the silences and traces left by history and human migration.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\">\r\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Greek-Embassy.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Embajada-uruguay.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Embassy of Uruguay<\/span><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Logo-institut-culturel-de-Roumanie.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.1379%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Logo-Ambassade-Maroc-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 14.3104%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Logo-Ambassade-Serbie-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Logo-Ambassade-Qatar.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\">\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Francophonie-Purple-text-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Logo-ambassade-de-France-en-Finlande-2020-200X200.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 19.1379%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23694 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orion-logo-300x135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orion-logo-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orion-logo-1280x574.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orion-logo-500x224.png 500w, https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orion-logo-800x359.png 800w, https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Orion-logo-1920x861.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 14.3104%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" style=\"letter-spacing: -0.315px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 16.7241%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Francophonie Month with six must-see films from Francophone African cinema \u2014 a vibrant journey through classic masterpieces and contemporary creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-francophonie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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