The International Film Festival of Africa and the Islands [Festival International du Film d’Afrique et des Îles] will take place from September 26 to October 4, 2009, on the island of Reunion. This year, one of the films to premier is Sarah Maldoror’s Eïa pour Césaire (homage to foremost Caribbean writer and thinker Aimé Césaire, France, 2009).
Other films by Caribbean directors or on Caribbean subjects include Mariette Montpierre’s Blame it on the tango (US/Guadeloupe, 2009), Sylvaine Dampierre’s Le pays à l’envers (Guadeloupe, 2009), Frantz Voltaire’s Maestro Issa (Haïti, 2009), Shu Aiello’s Cinéastes et papillons (Guadeloupe/France, 2009), Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque’s Zétwal (Martinique, 2008), Giscard Bouchotte’s La vie rêvée de Sarah (Haïti, 2008), Barbara Jean-Elie’s Bèlè, Tambour vivant (Martinique, 2008), Pascale Obolo’s Calypso at dirty Jim’s (Trinidad & Tobago/Cameroun, 2005), German Kral’s Música cubana (Germany, 2004), and Sarah Maldoror’s Damas (homage to poet Léon-Gontran Damas, French Guyana, 2004).
For a list of films, see http://gensdelacaraibe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3957:-festival-international-du-film-dafrique-et-des-iles-2009&catid=43&Itemid=54
Gens de la Caraïbe also has information on individual directors, such as Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque, at http://www.gensdelacaraibe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2807&Itemid=78
For more information on all festival activities, see http://www.festivalfilmafriqueiles.fr/
