6 short films will be made at the end of the year in Algeria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Benin.

The six projects selected from 30 entries originating in 7 African countries all provide a different perspective on passages in Africa’s cities. The completed films will consist of
animation, docu-fiction, documentary, fiction or “mockumentary” and their approaches will be political, symbolic, fantasy, comical, architectural or urban.

The selected young filmmakers will receive help from local professionals and IVM experts to write their screenplays and organise the production of their films. The partner organisations will provide the necessary technical equipment. The six films, made in late 2015, will be distributed at the Passages international touring exhibition from spring 2016 and at audiovisual events.

THE PROJECTS

L’Arrêt

Leïla Aoudj (Algiers, Algeria)

Fiction: in the course of a car ride along a seaside boulevard, a young couple experiences the beginnings of an adult relationship, cut short by a police roadblock. The boulevard is seen as a transitional space between two worlds, between city and country, imprisonment and freedom, here and elsewhere.

Alger entre de bas en haut

Nesrine Dahmoun (Algiers, Algeria)

Docu-fiction: Amina’s trip on the Algiers subway and then by cable car highlights the transformation in users’ day-to-day experience and their relations to urban space wrought by the arrival of new methods of transport, which also constitute transitional spaces between the worlds of reality and imagination.

Entre deux rives

Evelyne Agli (Cotonou, Benin)

Documentary: the author visits her friend Epiphane. The latter is a priest in the parish, who travels to Gbodjè by car, by boat or on foot, depending on the season. In this hamlet, cut off by a river, the inhabitants have built a bridge to access Cotonou at high water time.

Coup de balai sur le pont

Nabaloum Boureima (Burkina Faso)

Short animated film: during the popular uprising against the Blaise Compaoré regime on October 31, 2014, a bridge is the arena of a chase and run between police and demonstrators.

Casa Branca – The Bridge

Orlando Mabasso (Maputo, Mozambique)

“Mockumentary”: conflicts in the uses and appropriation of the passage, between clothes sellers plying their trade above and below a bridge in Maputo.

Passicalme

Selim Gribaa (Tunis, Tunisia)

Fiction: unsettling trip by Asma and Mourad along Rue des Forgerons in the Médina in Tunis, the street leading to Bab Jedid (Gate of Renewal). Reflection on the passage as an architectural space, the concept of the boundary and cinema as a passage from imaginary to real

WHO IS THE COMPETITION OPEN TO?

▪ Film students (for all educational levels)
▪ Young, self-taught filmmakers who have already made at least one film, living on the African continent and under 35 years of age.

The candidates must live in the country for which they register and commit to participating in the whole creative workshop if they are selected. 

Timetable

• 30 January 2015: opening of the competition
• 15 April 2015: limit date for entry of the film projects
• June 2015: international jury
• September-December 2015: production of the movies in each participating country
• Beginning of 2016: public screening at the international Passages conference and audiovisual events
• 2016-2017: screening of the films

HOW TO APPLY?

The application file includes:

• the registration form completely filled (in annex)
• a 10-line text describing the project
• a memo of intent which includes the planned cinematic treatment (working hypotheses)
• the applicant’s professional and personal history  (not a standard CV but a personal form)
• an extract (3-4 minutes) of already completed work  (MOV, Avi or MKV format)
• high resolution digital photo of the passage the candidate intends to film (digital, 300 dpi)
• photocopy of the ID card or passport

A mail will be sent to the candidates to confirm the reception of their candidacy within 48 hours after reception.

Duration of the short-films: 5 to 10 minutes

Genres: fiction, documentary, experimental, animation

PRODUCTION OF THE SELECTED PROJECTS WITH THE HELP OF IVM AND LOCAL COACHES

The selected candidates realize their film with the help of IVM as far as the theme Passages and its issues are concerned, and  coaches for the phases of writing, rewriting, shooting, editing and postproduction. The objective is to support the making of the film that should be ready at the end of 2015.

Training structures: Kaïna Cinema (Algeria), Merveilles production (Benin),  16mm  filmes  (Mozambique), Intage Production (Tunisia) and Toi et moi Film (Burkina Faso).

TO WHOM DO THE SHORT-FILMS BELONG WHEN THEY ARE REALIZED?

To their author, the City in the Move Institute and the training structures

WHO ARE THE ORGANIZERS OF THE COMPETITION?

City on the Move as part of the latter’s international program, “passages, transitional spaces for the 21st century city”, in partnership with the different training structures taking part to the project

Some films to get some inspiration…

Tahya ya didou

and a travelling of 156 passages in the world

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The selected young filmmakers will receive help from local professionals and IVM experts to write their screenplays and organise the production of their films. The partner organisations will provide the necessary technical equipment.