FESPACO 2009: Concern

A popular festive event, a convivial get-together, and the opportunity to discover and promote the latest African productions, FESPACO, the biennial rendezvous of African film, is well loved. In 2009, as ever, FESPACO remained the site of meetings and debates, a festival forum. But the sharp increase in organizational problems so hampered the 2009 edition that they cannot afford to be overlooked. And if FESPACO 2009 raised concerns, it wasn’t only for organizational reasons either.