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African Duo Makes Cannes History With 'Congo Boy,' 'Ben'Imana'

Variety·Christopher Vourlias·19 days ago
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African cinema will make history at this year’s Cannes Film Festival , with filmmakers from two of the continent’s nascent screen industries cracking the official selection of the prestigious French fest for the very first time. Both Rwandan debutante Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, with her post-genocide drama “Ben’Imana,” and Central African filmmaker Rafiki Fariala , with his coming-of-age drama “Congo Boy,” will fly the flags of their respective nations over the Croisette when their films premiere in Un Certain Regard. Fariala, who broke ground in 2022 when his documentary “We, Students!” became the first feature from the Central African Republic to play at the Berlinale, arrives in Cannes with a deeply autobiographical story of a young Congolese refugee pursuing his dream of becoming a singer in a country torn apart by civil war.…

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