MONTREAL/March 6, 2006—
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On Thursday, March 9, Concordia's Peace and Conflict Resolution lecture series will present the film, Faat-Kinè, directed by Ousmane SembËne. It's one of the films in the sub-series Exploring Conflict and its Resolution on the African Continent through Film.
The film will be shown at 8:30 p.m. in room H-535, of the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). It will be presented in French and Wolof (one of the languages of Senegal) with English subtitles and will be followed by a response by John Galaty, Professor in Department of Anthropology at McGill University and conclude with an open discussion session.
In Faat-Kinè, Ousmane Sembëne, the unquestioned father of African cinema, calls his fellow Africans to a reckoning of the post-independence era at the beginning of a new century. At 77, he sums up 40 years of groundbreaking filmmaking with a penetrating analysis of the interplay of gender, economics and power in today's Africa. SembËne accomplishes all this through the deceptively light domestic drama of Faat-KinÈ, a gas station operator born, significantly, the same year as Senegalese independence, 1960.
For more information about this event, contact Dr. Andrew Ivaska at (514) 848-2424 ext. 2419, or Dr. Leander Schneider at (514)848-2424, ext. 5601.
About the sub-series Exploring Conflict and Its Resolution on the African Continent through Film, visit: http://peace.concordia.ca.
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Source :
Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
