Word: burundi
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...spark international interest in African films throughout the United States, The African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF), in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has organized the African Film Festival Traveling Series. Seven films are presented during this tour of African cinema. The films hail from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania...
...Gito The Ungrateful," one of the most popular African films in 1992, succeeds beautifully at providing a comic look at the dreams and harsh realities of one arregant man after be graduates from a French university and returns to Burundi confident be can become a cabinet minister. Gito (Joseph Kumbels) reminds one of Tom Cruise's arrogant Charlie Babbitt in "Rain...
Soon things start to fall apart after Gito realizes that his degree is not a direct ticket to prosperity, and when Christine comes unannounced to join him in Burundi. Director Leonce Ngabo creates a sympathetic character in Gito who is decked out in brightly-colored suits and frequents vibrant locations. Ngabo's treatment of Gito's family and love relationships tenderly reveals Gito's slight exasperation overcome with genuine adoration. It is a portrait of true familial and romantic love...
...nature of the war that led to the use of the bombs, a war that possessed its own terrible clarity: that of simple, ferocious hate; of civilization pitted against civilization, race against race, blood against blood. That kind of fighting still occurs: in the Balkans, in Rwanda and Burundi, in the streets of Los Angeles and Karachi. But the imagination of the world pays little heed to the sensibilities of such conflicts. Minds have been polarized by the cold war and fascinated by the mighty mushroom clouds of 1945--by the imminence of endless death from the radiance...
Several hundred Hutu were killed by marauding Tutsi in a racially mixed neighborhood in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, raising the specter of widespread ethnic violence. Last year in neighboring Rwanda, genocidal massacres killed 500,000, mostly Tutsi. In Burundi, tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees decided not to wait for help and began walking to Tanzania--a two-day trek...