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Seeing the birth of a character from a designer’s pen is always a magical moment: the black tip of the marker extends over the paper and an entire world emerges. But then when this world comes to life, the magic happens. Writer and screenwriter Marguerite Abbey gives life, on screen, to her character Aksey, a mischievous little girl from Abidjan drawn by Mathieu Sabine (ten volumes published by Galimard Jeunesse).
The 26-minute special was broadcast in France on France 4, and in Africa on Boomerang Africa. It is available on the Okoo platform (Aksei in France 4).
A short film aired while in Annecy, The International Animation Film Festival At its best. We also welcome Portuguese director José Miguel Ribeiro, whose debut feature film, Nayola, was among the ten competing films.
Yara is the name of a rebellious young rapper from Angola who defied the police with her free scripts in 2011… Never knowing her parents, she was raised by her grandmother, and her story is intertwined with that of his mother Nayola, who, sixteen years ago, in 1995 and in the midst of a civil war, searches About her lover Icombe.
At the origin of Akissi, there are comic book albums. For Niola, it’s a play (The black boxwritten by Mia Couto and José Eduardo Angualosa, two famous writers in Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking African countries such as Angola).
Also showing in our cinemas this week, news from 7The tenth Art in the World and the latest Disney/Pixar movie, Buzz Lightyear, has been censored by a dozen countries in the world due to a sequence showing a tender kiss between two characters (Correspondence in Los Angeles by Loïc Pialat).
