Nigerien film

The Nigerien film includes national filmmaking Niger , which shortly after the independence of the former colony of France developed in 1960th

history

The first films made in Niger were products of French cinema . Léon Poirier documented in 1925 in La croisière noire Trans Africa Expedition Croisière Noire from Citroën , which also led by the Niger colony. In 1936 Jean d'Esme shot La grande caravane, a documentary about the salt caravans to the Bilma oasis .

The key figure on the way to an independent Nigerien cinema was the French filmmaker and ethnologist Jean Rouch , who in 1947 made his first of over 120 films about a hippo hunt on the Niger River with Au pays des mages noirs . Rouch hired Moustapha Alassane and Oumarou Ganda as assistants and actors for later films and taught them - like some other Nigerien artists - the basics of film technology. The short documentary Aouré by Moustapha Alassane from 1962 is considered the first genuine Nigerien film .

The directorial work by Alassane and Ganda, as well as other directors such as Djingarey Maïga and Inoussa Ousséïni , created in the 1960s and 1970s, quickly found international recognition. Cabascabo by Oumarou Ganda was the first African film to be shown at the Semaine de la critique at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969 . The early successes of Nigerien cinema ran parallel to that of Senegalese (with directors such as Ousmane Sembène and Boubacar Samb ) and Ivorian (with directors such as Timité Bassori and Henri Duparc ). Nigerien film history was relatively unaffected by the Nollywood cinema of its large southern neighbor, Nigeria .

In the 1980s, the national and international importance of Nigerien film declined. This was mainly due to financial reasons. The heyday of the Nigerien cinema ran parallel to the country's economic boom triggered by uranium mining in Arlit . In 1980, French film funding was reorganized in the francophone African countries. The country has now been used as a location for European feature films. Mention should be made here of Heaven over the Desert (1990) by director Bernardo Bertolucci or Die Gefangene der Desert (1990) by director Raymond Depardon , who shot among other things in the ruined city of Djado . Since the 2000s, several European and North American documentaries have been made in and about Niger. In 2009 the state Center National de la Cinématographie du Niger (CNCN) was opened, which is intended to help build on earlier successes of Nigerien film.

List of Nigerien Films

The list is arranged in ascending order by year of production and can be sorted by columns. It includes films with Niger as the production country.

Movie title	year	Director	Co-production country
Aouré	1962	Moustapha Alassane	-
La Pileuse de Mil	1962	Moustapha Alassane	-
L'arachide de Santchira	1964	Moustapha Alassane	-
Bon voyage, sim	1966	Moustapha Alassane	-
Les cow boys sont noirs	1966	Serge Moati	-
Le retour d'un aventurier	1966	Moustapha Alassane	France
Malbaza	1967	Moustapha Alassane	-
Cabascabo	1969	Oumarou Ganda	-
Les contre Bandiers	1969	Moustapha Alassane	-
Petit à petit	1970	Jean Rouch	France
Yan Diga - Ils traverseront des pays comme des jardins	1970	Serge Moati	France
Jamyya	1971	Moustapha Alassane	-
Le wazzou polygame	1971	Oumarou Ganda	France
Abimbola ou Shaki	1972	Moustapha Alassane	-
FVVA: Femme, villa, voiture, argent	1972	Moustapha Alassane	Burkina Faso
Dongo Hori	1974	Jean Rouch	France
Saitane	1973	Oumarou Ganda	France
Siberi	1973	Moustapha Alassane	-
Cocorico Monsieur Poulet	1974	Jean Rouch	France
Soubane	1974	Moustapha Alassane	-
Toula or The Spirit of Water	1974	Moustapha Alassane , Anna Soehring	Germany
Babatou - The three pieces of advice	1976	Jean Rouch	France
L'étoile noire	1976	Djingarey Maïga	France
Samba le grand	1977	Moustapha Alassane	-
Zaboa	1978	Moustapha Alassane	-
Nuages ​​noirs	1979	Djingarey Maïga	-
L'éxilé	1980	Oumarou Ganda	France
Wasan kara	1980	Inoussa Ousséïni	-
Agwane mon Village	1982	Moustapha Alassane	-
Gourimou	1982	Moustapha Alassane	-
Kankamba ou le semeur de discorde	1982	Moustapha Alassane	-
Si les cavaliers	1982	Mahamane Bakabé	-
Kankamba ou le semeur de discorde	1982	Moustapha Alassane	-
Aube noire	1983	Djingarey Maïga	-
Petanqui	1983	Kozoloa Yéo	Ivory Coast, France
Baabu Banza	1985	Mariama Hima	-
Kokoa	1985	Moustapha Alassane	-
Le médecin de Gafire	1986	Mustapha Diop	France, Mali
Mamy Wata	1990	Mustapha Diop	Burkina Faso, Mali
How are the kids - human rights and children	1992	Lino Brocka , Rolan Bykov	France, Colombia, Philippines, Switzerland, Russia, USA
Imûhar, a legend	1997	Jacques Dubuisson	France
I'm tired from standing, I'm lying down	1997	Jean Rouch	France
Les Magiciens de l'Ader	2000	Moustapha Alassane	-
Soolo	2000	Moustapha Alassane	-
Agaïssa	2001	Moustapha Alassane	-
Tagimba	2000	Moustapha Alassane	-
Agadez nomade FM	2004	Christian Lelong , Pierre Mortimore	France, Switzerland
Al'lèèssi ... Une actrice africaine	2005	Rahmatou Keïta	France
Arlit, deuxième Paris	2005	Idrissou Mora Kpaï	Benin, France
Au center de la Terre, des puits et des hommes	2008	Ingrid Patetta	France
Koglb-Zanga ou Prince Wendemi - Un exemple de combat contre l'exclusion	2008	Ilboudo Yalgabamba , Abraham Bassole	Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso
Pour le meilleur et pour l'oignon!	2008	Sani Elhadj Magori	France
Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion	2010	Ron Wyman	-
La danse des Woodabe	2010	Sandrine Loncke	France
Dystopia: What Is to Be Done?	2010	Garry Potter	Canada, Greenland, Bangladesh, USA, Iraq
Hassia	2010	Moussa Hamadou Djingarey	-
La Broma Infinita	2011	David Muñoz	Spain, Turkey, Bangladesh, USA, Japan
Koukan Kourcia (Le cri de la tourterelle)	2011	Sani Elhadj Magori	France
Mon return au pays	2012	Moussa Hamadou Djingarey	-
The Woodcutters (or How to Bring Down a Dictatorship)	2012	Gemma Atkinson , Fred Grace	UK
Koré	2013	Moussa Hamadou Djingarey	-
Lokkol. L'école. Alwasi et Aikije vont (aussi) à l'école	2013	Francesco Sincich	Italy
Tussen Amsterdam en Ouagadougou	2013	Hans Bouma	Netherlands, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali
Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai	2015	Christopher Kirkley	-
Le pagne	2016	Moussa Hamadou Djingarey	-

literature

• Manama Bernard, Yves Bernard: Le Cinéma au Niger . In: 7e Art . No. 49 , 1984, pp. 5-7 .
• Jean-Baptiste Dossou-Yovo: Le cinéma nigérien: un passé à recomposer . In: Clap Noir . February 12, 2004 ( online version ).
• Pierre Haffner: A national school: Niger . In: Revue pour le Cinéma Français . No. 27/28 , November 1989, pp. 35-46 .
• Ousmane Ilbo: Le cinéma au Niger . OCIC, Brussels 1993.
• Saley Hamidou Ko: Cinéma et littérature . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 92-95 .

Web links

• Production country Niger in the English version of the Internet Movie Database .
• Filming location Niger in the English version of the Internet Movie Database .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 64–65.
2. ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , pp. 36-37.
3. ^ Jean-Baptiste Dossou-Yovo: Le cinéma nigérien: un passé à recomposer . In: Clap Noir , February 12, 2004 ( online version ).
4. ^ Oumarou Moussa: Cérémonie officielle d'inauguration du siège provisoire du Center National de la Cinématographie du Niger (CNCN) et remise de matériel technique . In: Le Sahel , December 7, 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from December 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ).