泛非电影节在布基纳法索开幕
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA2005（上）--体育娱乐看台
Fespaco Movie Festival Opens in Burkina Faso
泛非电影节在布基纳法索开幕
Burkina Faso's African biennial 1 movie festival has opened in the capital, Ouagadougou, with 20 feature-length works competing for the Gold Stallion of Yennenga.
The Fespaco opened its eight-day celebration of movies with its own hymn 2.
Some of the works competing for the top prize include stories about the scars of genocide, a transvestite mortician, and a veteran Angolan civil war fighter returning to civilian 3 life. The Gold Stallion of Yennenga goes to the film that best depicts 4 African realities.
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This movie, called Ouaga Saga 5, about Burkina Faso's capital, will be a hometown favorite. It tells the story of how big city youths cope with AIDS, work stress, and family headaches through music. It also includes a talking donkey.
There are also categories for short films, video documentaries and films by African directors who live outside the continent.
One of the festival's organizers, Youn Bahissinine, says there will also be a crucial workshop on training.
Youn Bahissinine: For us to have good and well made films, we need well-trained people, and, you know that, in Africa, like in many other fields, we are a bit lagging behind. So, we need well-trained technicians, well-trained industry people for our films, to be better and to be able to make their way through the international arena 6.
Except for being showcased at such festivals, most African movies rarely get distributed anywhere.
Proper film industries of once rich West and Central Africa have also almost completely disappeared, with the exception of Fespaco's host country, Burkina Faso.
But the region is home to one of the most prolific 7 video movie markets, especially in Nigeria, where several thousand of what are known as home videos are produced yearly.
Nico Colombant, VOA news, Abidjan.
注释：
biennial [bai5eniEl] adj. 二年一次的
genocide [5dVenEu7said] n. 有计划的灭种和屠杀
transvestite [trAns5vestait] 异性模仿欲
crucial [5kru:FiEl] adj. 至关紧要的
arena [E5ri:nE] n. 舞台
showcase [5FEJkeis] n. 显示优点的东西
- The workers were strongly against the biennial election.工人们强烈反对两年一次的选举。
- His is a biennial,and one of the most useful pasture plants we have.这是两年生植物，也是我们最有用的牧草之一。
- They sang a hymn of praise to God.他们唱着圣歌，赞美上帝。
- The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.合唱团只唱了最后一首赞美诗的两个段落。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- The book vividly depicts French society of the 1930s. 这本书生动地描绘了20 世纪30 年代的法国社会。
- He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively. 他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
- The saga of Flight 19 is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle.飞行19中队的传说或许是有关百慕大三角最重复的故事。
- The novel depicts the saga of a family.小说描绘了一个家族的传奇故事。
- She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
- He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。