Cinema of Niger

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

History

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

The key figure on the way to an independent Nigerien cinema was the French filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, of his first created in 1947, Au pays des mages noirs on a hippo - hunting on the River Niger from over 120 movies. Rouch committed for future films Moustapha Alassane and Oumarou Ganda assistantships and actor and taught them - like some other Nigerien artists - the basics of film technology. As the first genuinely Nigerien film is the short documentary by Moustapha Alassane Aouré from the year 1962.

The jobs created in the 1960s and 1970s directing of Alassane and Ganda and other directors like Djingarey Maiga and Inoussa Ousseini gained international recognition quickly. Cabascabo of Oumarou Ganda in 1969 was the first African film to be shown at the Semaine de la critique of the film festival in Cannes. The early successes of Nigerien cinema were parallel to those of the Senegalese ( Ousmane Sembene and with directors such as Boubacar Samb ) and Côte d'Ivoire ( with directors such as Henri Duparc and Timité Bassori ). The Nigerien film history remained relatively unaffected by the Nollywood movie of the great southern neighbor Nigeria.

In the 1980s, the national and international significance of the Nigerien film sank. This had mainly financial reasons. The heyday of Nigerien cinema ran parallel to caused by uranium mining in Arlit economic boom in the country. 1980 also the film promotion of France in the French-speaking African countries was reorganized. Chance of the country is now served as the location of European feature films. Foremost among these are The Sheltering Sky (1990 ), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and The Prisoner of the Desert ( 1990) by director Raymond Depardon, who turned inter alia, in the ruined city Djado. Increasingly since the 2000s produced some European and North American documentaries in and about Niger. 2009, the State Centre National de la Cinématographie du Niger ( CNCN ) was opened, which should help to build on earlier successes of the Nigerien film.

List Nigerien films

The list is sorted by ascending years of production and is sortable by column. It includes films with Niger as a production country.