Successful Cinema Mondial Tour extended

PRESS RELEASE March 1, 2011

The Cinema Mondial Tour in Africa by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) and IDFA’s Jan Vrijman Fund (JVF), which started in July 2010, is to continue for a second season. The Cinema Mondial Tour will continue in 2011-2012 with a new programme of feature films and documentaries from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. In addition, new festivals in Africa have been added to the existing programme.

As in the first season, the films in the Cinema Mondial Tour programme come from African countries as well as other regions where the HBF and JVF are active. The first programme consisted of twelve films, screened at festivals in ten African countries. The first Cinema Mondial Tour in Africa was a great success, thanks in part to the varied programme of films from various regions. It has proved difficult and costly for film festivals to show films from Africa – the Tour made this possible.

In total, the programme was seen by some 8,000 African film-lovers (provisional estimate). The cooperation by the Hubert Bals Fund and the Jan Vrijman Fund with the African festivals also led to the support of all manner of other film and documentary projects such as seminars, workshops and open-air screenings. At the Zanzibar International Film Festival, the funds contributed to the special programme whereby the festival goes into the provinces and organises open-air screenings.

Cinema Mondial Tour 2011-2012
For the second tour, the funds offer the participating film festivals the opportunity to request financial support for the dubbing of films from the Cinema Mondial Tour and the addition of these films to festival programmes in rural areas.

Programme to date
(subject to changes)

Hubert Bals Fund films:
Hawi (Ibrahim El Batout, Egypt/Qatar, 2010, international premiere during IFFR 2011)
The Old Donkey (Li Ruijun, China, 2010, European premiere during IFFR 2011)
Los Viajes del Viento (Ciro Guerra, Colombia/the Netherlands/Argentina/Germany, 2009)
Be Calm and Count to Seven (Ramtin Lavafipour, Iran, 2008, Tiger Award Winner 2009)
Pandora’s Box (Yesim Ustaoglu, Turkey/France/Germany/Belgium, 2008)
Selection of short films from the programmes Forget Africa (IFFR 2010) and Raiding Africa (IFFR 2011)

Jan Vrijman Fund films:
Little Voices (Jairo Eduardo Carrillo, Colombia, 2010
Pourquoi? (Sokhna Amar, Senegal, 2005)
The Silent Monologue (Khady Sylla, Charlie Van Damme, Senegal, 2008)
Keiskamma - A Story of Love (Miki Redelinghuys, South Africa, 2007)
Run for Life (Mladen Maticevic, Serbia, 2010)
Maids and Bosses (Abner Benaim, Panama, 2010)

Partner festivals:
Ecrans Noirs – Festival Int'l de Cinéma de Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Rwanda Film Festival (Rwanda)
Zanzibar International Film Festival (Tanzania)
Durban International Film Festival (South Africa)
Zimbabwe International Film Festival (Zimbabwe)
Kenya International Film Festival (Kenya)
Amakula Kampala International Film Festival (Uganda)
Ethiopian International Film Festival (Ethiopia)
Festival du Film de Dakar (Senegal)
Quintessence (Benin)
Salaam Kiva International Film Festival (Democratic Republic Congo)

The Hubert Bals Fund is supported by the ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Hivos Culture Foundation, Dioraphte Foundation and DOEN Foundation.
The Jan Vrijman Fund is supported by the ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Hivos Culture Foundation and DOEN Foundation.

For screening information and the most recent list of participating festivals, see:
IDFA website: Cinema Mondial Tour
IFFR website: Cinema Mondial Tour

For further information and visual materials on the Cinema Mondial Tour in Africa, contact Laura van Halsema: +31 (0)20 6273329 / [email protected] or IFFR Press Office, Bert-Jan Zoet, +31 (0)10 8909090 / [email protected]