Afrika Sineması

Yukarıda Afrika filmleriyle ilgili bir link var.
Ayrıca aşağıda Avrupalı göçmenleri Afrika nın kapısında resmetmeye çalışan bir filmden bahsediliyor Reuters in 24 Ocak 07 tarihli haberinde.
Tabiiki Afrika Avrupa dan daha zengin bir kıtadır hammadde olarak. İşin gerçeği Avrupalılar 15.yüzyıldan itibaren açlıklarından dünyanın dört bir tarafına saldırmış, ordaki yerli halkı ya öldürmüş, ya da köleleştirmişlerdir. Köle ticareti ve sömürü ile zengin olmuşlardır. Fransız ihtilali kralları yok etmişse de, burjuvanın yeni zavallılar bulup sömürmesine olanak sağlamıştır. Hala da Afrika da büyük etkileri vardır. Çok isterdim bir gün sadece bir gün Avrupa daki süpermarketlerden Afrika ve Asya ürünleri kalksın. Muz, Avacado Avrupa da Türkiye den daha ucuz. Afrika yı sömürmek daha bi hoşlarına gidiyor tabii...Asya dan daha çok korkuyorlar. Afrika dan aslında korkmuyorlar. Fransız İhtilali ile başlayan köleleştirme o zamanki zamana kadar görülmemiş bir köleleştirmedir...
Ne kadar isterlerdi Çin şimdi Afrika gibi onların elinde köleleştirilmiş olsun ama Çin in eski ve köklü kültürü buna mani oldu.Uğraşmadılar değil. Özellikle Alman protestan rahipler 24 bin çinliyi hristiyanlığa çevirmiş, İngilizlerin ve Fransızların Afrika da yaptıklarını Çin de yapmak üzere iken, o zamanki Çin hanedanı 24bin çinliyi ve Arupa dan gelen elçiyi öldürttü. Çini misyonlayamadılar ama hala uğraşıyorlar. Yaşasın Konfüçyüs, yaşasın Marx! :-)
Eğer en başından Afrika lılar Avrupalıları gördükleri yerde yok etmiş olsalardı, şimdi bu durumda olmazlardı.
Avrupa Avrupalıların olsun! Asya, Afrika ve Güney Amerika dan çıksınlar, o bile yeter.
Afrika lıların ama en büyük hatası durmadan birbirlerini satmaları, birbirleriyle savaşmaları, en kötüsü de politikacılarının halkı satmasıdır.
Böyle filmler tabii yine de bence pek iyi olmuyor. Çünkü Avrupa da birçok paranoyak nazi tip zaten bu senaryodan çok korkuyor ve daha beter yabancı düşmanlığı yapmaya başlıyor. Yapılan haksızlıkları kendileri inanın herkesden daha iyi biliyor.
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Europe bangs on Africa's door in migration movie
Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:45AM ET
By Peter Murphy
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Arriving on the shores of the continent they hope will offer them a brighter future, desperate illegal migrants are shot at by border guards, then locked in a transit center to await deportation.
It is a story all too familiar to African cinema audiences, except in a new film set in 2033 the impoverished migrants are not poor Africans but Europeans, fleeing their crumbling continent after it is devastated by war.
"Africa Paradis," which will feature in the pan-African Fespaco film festival in Burkina Faso next month and screen in some French cinemas, uses a simple role reversal to challenge ideas and attitudes to immigration.
Turning the present reality on its head, the film sees European economic immigrants take up jobs as drivers or maids and occupy downmarket city suburbs while immigration stirs hot debate in the parliament of the mighty United States of Africa.
Writer and producer Sylvestre Amoussou from Benin who plays pro-immigration parliament member Modibo Koudossou, says his own experiences as an immigrant in France prompted him to make the thought-provoking film.
"Having lived in France for many years, I realized to what extent integration in a foreign country, even a friendly one, can be difficult," he said in comments on www.africine.org.
"I often wondered if those who welcomed us were conscious of the difficulties we face," he said.
SEEKING ACCEPTANCE
Africa Paradis uses a healthy dose of humor to challenge perceptions and attitudes to immigration, making it more than a just a gratuitous swipe at "fortress Europe." The plot centers around one young couple's clandestine journey into Africa.
Olivier, an unemployed engineer, escapes from the transit center, dodging the police until he steals identity papers from the corpse of another white man run over by a car. Poor and jobless, he remains stuck on the fringes of society.
His partner Pauline however, quickly integrates after she is allowed to stay and finds work as a maid in Koudossou's home while still searching for Olivier. Their contrasting circumstances lead the couple along very different paths.
Amoussou, who part-funded the 2 million euro ($2.6 million) film himself and raised the rest of the cash from the African diaspora, told Reuters the unconventional script had been largely rejected by the mainstream cinema industry in France.
"It isn't what they expect from Africans in cinema. They expect misery but not a film about reflection, but this is a film about tolerance and living together," he said, adding that some film companies would only work with mainstream producers.
"They want us to do films about African villages and poverty," he said, adding a number of independent cinemas in France had agreed to show it from late next month.
The film debuted at the cinema at Hotel Ivoire in Ivory Coast, a vast 750-bedroom complex whose now empty swimming pool and defunct ice rink recall an era when the West African state saw the economic boom aspired to in the film.
But poverty and unemployment have risen sharply here since a brief 2002-03 civil war spawned a complex political crisis that international peace efforts have so far failed to resolve.
Pharmacology student Nomen Adoumel, 20, one of a handful of people to occupy the red velvet seats in the oft-empty cinema said the film was as thought-provoking for Africans as for Europeans with its novel perspective on immigration issues.
"I didn't like that the Africans were playing the same game (in their treatment of immigrants)," he said.
"I would have liked to see them show a bit more love and be a bit more positive," he said.
But for ticket seller Georgette Adou, the idea of a united, prosperous Africa was too far-fetched.
"It is a dream that will never happen," she said.