Its goal is to bring African realities closer through their cinema with activities in Menorca and Ibiza, on the 4th and 11th of September, and in Mallorca, between the 23rd and 25th of September.
Nine films from seven African countries make up the programme of the second edition of the Festival d’Altres Cinemes (Other Cinemas Festival).
The Festival d’Altres Cinemes (FAC) is back, celebrating its second edition in September with activities in Menorca and Ibiza, on the 4th and 11th of this month, respectively, and with three days of screenings in Mallorca, between the 23rd and 25th.
The first edition of the Festival d’Altres Cinemes, held in 2019, highlighted the interest in the Balearic Islands in learning more about African realities and doing so without paternalism or prejudice. The FAC showed that Balearic citizens want to listen to the stories that African creators tell through their cinema. For this reason, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Sports of the Government of the Balearic Islands is reviving this event, which aims to consolidate its place in the Islands’ cultural programme.
The programme has been designed around three axes that show the extent to which the African and European populations are intertwined: activism and resistance; climate change; and care, health and love. The screenings will be accompanied by parallel round tables to explore the themes in more depth. Nine films from seven African countries make up the kaleidoscope of screenings, which this year, for the first time, are not limited to Palma. The second edition of the FAC wanted to be more insular, so it has planned activities in emblematic places in Menorca and Ibiza. In fact, the activities will begin on Saturday the 4th of September at the
Far de Cavalleria des Mercadal, with the screening of the film I Am Not a Witch (Zambia / United Kingdom, 2018), by director Rungano Nyoni, an uncomplicated tale of witchcraft. The same work will be screened on 11th September at the Puig des Molins d’Ibiza Monographic Museum.
The rest of the programme will include short films such as Zombies (DRC / Belgium, 2019) by Baloji, Machini (DRC, 2019) by Frank Mukunday and Téntshim, Bablinga (Burkina Faso, 2019) by Fabien Dao or Al-Sit (Sudan, 2020) by Suzannah Mirghani, and one of the most applauded documentary films of recent years such as Softie (Kenya, 2020) by Sam Soko. The festival also reserves a space for films that have become practically classics such as Hyenes (Senegal, 1992) by Djibril Diop Mambéty; but also for fictions such as the story of overcoming conveyed by Supa Modo (Kenya / Germany, 2018) by Likarion Wainainainaina or immersion in the penitentiary world dressed in magical realism that is Night of the Kings (Ivory Coast, 2020) by Philippe Lacote.
In this edition, the FAC is committed to open-air screenings in Menorca and Ibiza and the closing of the festival in Palma, with the collaboration of Cinema Rodat, the employment initiative of the Gira-Sol Association. All activities are free, but tickets must be booked through the festival website to ensure anti-Covid measures.
More information:
https://festivalaltrescinemes.com/