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Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt
Location	Apt, Vaucluse, France
Founded	2003
Founded by	Fanny Toulemonde (Projections), Cinéma César, Le Goût de lire en pays d’Apt, Dominique Wallon and the Comité de jumelage Apt-Bakel, Senegal
Festival date	November annually
Language	French; English
Website	https://www.africapt-festival.fr/

The Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt (FCAPA) is an annual international film festival on African cinema organised since 2003 in Apt, Vaucluse, France.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Programs of recent festival editions screen films in the categories of fiction feature films, long documentaries, shorts, and a press conference feature film. The festival has also presented film retrospectives of many African filmmakers, including Merzak Allouache, Malek Bensmaïl, Souleymane Cissé, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Samba Félix Ndiaye, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ousmane Sembène, Abderrahmane Sissako, and Tariq Teguia.^[4]

2023 programme

The 2023 edition of the FCAPA screened 7 short and 20 feature films, including Amchilini (Choisis-moi) (documentary, 2023) by Kader Allamine (Tchad); Behind the Mountains (fiction, 2023) by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia); Our lady of the Chinese Shop (fiction, 2022) by Ery Claver (Angola); Au cimetière de la pellicule (documentary, 2023) by Thierno Souleymane Diallo (Guinea); La mère de tous les mensonges (documentary, 2023) by Asmae El Moudir (Morocco); Goodbye Julia (fiction, 2023) by Mohamed Kordofani (Sudan); Nome (fiction, 2023) by Sana Na N’Hada (Guinea-Bissau); Eat bitter (documentary, 2023) by Ningyi Sun (China) and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy (Central African Republic); and Banel et Adama (fiction, 2023) by Ramata-Toulaye Sy (France/Senegal).

Productions and outreach

The Festival produced several films with support of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, including Nanga Def and Nawaari, both by Moussa Touré in 2005 with the participation of local students, and Regards de femmes (2005) by Michel Amarger, Électro for ever (2008) by Angèle Diabang Brener with electronics students, and Le regard colonial, a 2010 montage by Jean-Pierre Daniel of colonial films.^[1]^[4]

Engaging pupils of local schools was a festival goal since the start.^[5] A screenwriter-in-residence - Nina Khada in 2022 and Lamine Ammarkhodja in 2023 - guided local students in the FCAPA Junior workshop for eight weeks to write and produce a video.^[6]

In each year's Marathon program an invited film director coaches various teams to each create a three-minute short in 48 hours, which is then shown and judged by a jury at the Festival.^[4]

Gallery of participants

Safi Faye, 2004.
Dominique Wallon, 2017.
Mouloud Aït Liotna, 2023.
Beru Tessema, 2023.
Marwa Tiba, 2023.
Leïla Kilani, 2023.
Maisha Maene, 2023.
Rim Mejdi, 2023.
Nadia Raïs, 2023.
Thierno Souleymane Diallo, 2023.

References

^ ^a ^b "Événements festival des cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt FCAPA 2023 21ème édition". africultures.com (in French). Africultures. Les mondes en relation. 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
^ "Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt". africine.org (in French). African Federation of Film Critics (Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique, FACC). 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2023. Durant une semaine, c'est plus d'une trentaine de films, courts et longs métrages, fiction et documentaire, qui sont projetés. Une vingtaine de réalisateurs invités échangent avec le public lors de débats, leçons de cinéma et rencontres. Plus de 5000 spectateurs participent à cet événement porté par une équipe professionnelle mais surtout, de nombreux bénévoles. (Translation: Over the course of a week, more than thirty films (short and feature films, fiction and documentary), are screened. Around twenty invited directors share their views with the public during debates, film workshops and panel interviews. More than 5,000 spectators participate in this event supported by a professional team but mainly by many volunteers.)
^ "Festival des cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt, Du 09/11/2023 au 14/11/2023. Apt • France". film-documentaire.fr (in French). Film Doc. 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt". africapt-festival.fr (in French). Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt. 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
^ Barlet, Olivier (13 November 2007). "Apt 2006: film pedagogy". africine.org. African Federation of Film Critics (Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique, FACC). Retrieved 7 December 2023.
^ "Productions". africapt-festival.fr (in French). Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt. Retrieved 7 December 2023.