Film festival

There is currently a film festival going on in Accra. Different venues show films on a "African documentaries" theme. So far we have seen "Mo and Me" about the African photographer Mohammed Amin, a film about prisons in Africa that I can't recall the name of and "The colonial misunderstanding" about the roles of missionaries in the colonization and other colonial issues. It's seriously interesting and best of all... It's FREE!

There seems to be quite a few festivals like this going on, in the beginning of our stay there was another festival with an ecological theme, that we sadly only saw one screening from ("Darwin's Nightmare", about the state of the fishing industry in lake Victoria. A must see!! + two other films that didn't leave as much impression....). So I recommend everybody coming here to contact the Alliance Francaise or the Goethe Institute who seem to have a finger in the film festival arranging business here. They also regularly screen films anyway...

Tonight we're going to see "the house of Saud", an Egyptian film that talks about how the Al Saud family keeps their power... Interesting or what?