Paris hosts the 4th edition of African Cinema Days featuring Côte d'Ivoire

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Paris hosts the 4th edition of African Cinema Days featuring Côte d'Ivoire  Côte d'Ivoire was in the spotlight at African Cinema Days 2025, with over 600 participants celebrating African cinema in Paris with screenings, debates and concerts.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/04/09/paris-hosts-the-4th-edition-of-african-cinema-days-featuring-cote-divoire  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Cinemaworks and Cinematic Africa organized the fourth edition of African cinema days in Paris

00:07three days during which the public came to discover or rediscover African cinema

00:13under a beautiful spring sun. I knew about Cineworks Association and I really like what

00:21they propose by promoting African cinema highlighting and above all showing films

00:25that aren't necessarily known to everyone. This year the spotlight was on Ivory Coast with a cult

00:31film Bal Poussier opening the show. Other classics followed all drawn from the Cinematheque a free

00:37catalog of over 1,800 films from the continent from 1950 to the present day. Our aim is to make

00:48these films accessible to the African population and to the diaspora so that they can reappropriate

00:53them and simply get familiar with these subjects. The program was also on target for children.

01:00They enjoyed the Ivorian animated films Akissi and Aya from Yopougon. I watched the one with Aya and

01:10little Akissi who wants a sister or a little brother and in the end she finds Boubou her monkey.

01:17Did you like it? Yes, very much. Actors, directors and producers met on a panel to discuss the

01:27development of Ivorian cinema. More and more organizations and institutions are funding and

01:35taking an interest in Ivorian cinema. There are also a few bridges with the English-speaking world

01:40that augurs well for the future. More than just screening, the event offered a really

01:46immersion in Ivorian culture with a comedy show and a DJ set. Closing the event was a concert by

01:55Ivorian star, Mei Wei. The King of Zoblazo kept the audience rocking until the end of the night.

02:01In all, over 600 people came together to celebrate Africa on the big screen.

02:08Big screen.

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