The Central African Republic is one of the world's poorest countries and the film industry is correspondingly small. The first film made in CAR appears to have been Les enfants de la danse, a short French-made ethnographic documentary of 1945. Joseph Akouissone was the first Central African to make a film in the country, with his 1981 documentary Un homme est un homme; he was followed by the documentaries made in the 1980s by Léonie Yangba Zowe. Since then a series of ongoing conflicts and economic crises have severely limited the potential growth of film-making in the country. The first feature-length drama made in the country was Le silence de la forêt, a 2003 CAR-Gabon-Cameroon co-production about the Biaka people.
List of Central African films
This is a sortable list of films produced in the CAR.
Films made
A Pygmy in the Bathtub,
short film, 1993. Broadcast: Canal Plus, TV5, CFI Festival: Montreal, Fespaco, Amiens…
La Couture de Paris,
short film, 1995. Distribution: CFI, Canal + Horizon, TV5, Festivals: Fespaco, Amiens, Montréal, Namur.
Au Bout du couloir,
short film, 1999. Festivals: Montreal, Amiens.
Diogenes to Brazzaville,
Documentary film, 2004. Portrait of the Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi. Broadcast: TV 10, CFI, Canal + Horizon, TV5, Festivals: Vue d'Afrique Montreal, Amiens, Fespaco, Namur, Milan, Lisbon.
Tchicaya, the little leaf that sings its country,
Documentary film, 2004. Portrait of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U'Tamsi. Diffusion: Images Plus, CFI, Canal + Horizon, Festivals: Fespaco, Amiens.
Films
Yangba bolo, 1985
Lengue, 1985
N'Zale, 1986
Paroles de sages, 1987
Filmography
Le silence de la forêt [The Silence of the Forest], 2003
Central African Republic film directors
*Didier Ouénangaré
*Léandre-Alain Baker
Léonie Yangba Zowe
Mamadou Mahmoud N'Dongo
Joseph Akouissone
Maurice Alezra
Béatrice Boffety
Patrick Demeester
Georges Durupt
Micheline Durupt
Richard
Bernard Guenau
Gérard Guérin
Evane Hanska
Charles Lescaut
harles Leaut
Chantal Monstile
Denis Parrichon
Moussa Ndongo
Sylviane Gboulou Mbapondo
Leila Thiam
Monsieur Habib
Fiacre Bindala
Camille Lepage
Andre kolingbe
bocha Sango
mokonga Quenitin
Alex Ballu
Heritter Acteur
Djimon Hounsou
Mbéni Yé by Sparrow
Étienne Goyémidé
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