kuxa kanema's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 30 in total
Royston Tan
“I want to surprise my audience every time, to let them know what I can do and to show them I don’t only make one kind of film.”
Med Hondo
“It's not up to Europe to solve African problems, but it's up to the Africans themselves. ”
Moussa Diakite Kémoko
“After independence in 1958, we faced a conspiracy of silence in all western countries about what was in Guinea, but the passion and temperament of Sekou Toure allowed him to get his message across in Africa. ”
Edwin
[on the making of "Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly"] "Although most foreigners didn’t quite catch the cultural references or understand the background (Indonesian social history), many understood and identified with the overall feeling of alienation. And that’s important to me: when the film is liberated from having to explain any facts or history or background, it independently expresses a strong feeling of confusion, unease, restlessness and even fear."
Youssef Chahine
“I am young. I am only 81 years old. I hope I can keep working for another 10 years. Old age is to let oneself become old.”
Flora Gomes
“The first African films, Ousmane Sembene’s films, which I greatly admire, are still very young. We have to carry on despite our weaknesses. The world is like that, made up of suffering and joy.”
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
“Yes, I think that you can take any subject to convey a serious issue, whether consciously or not. Film is manipulative! So, in order to tell a story, you first of all have to win the spectator’s confidence. He or she has to let go.”
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
“For me the most important question is everytime you talk about Africa you never talk about the future.”
Bertrand Bonello
“Mythology was the result of a polytheist society, today the oracle of my film who tells people their future clashes with Church dogma.”
Maren Ade
“To date, I have always started with a character whose inner life I investigated for some time. I am then able to extract a narrative from his or her desires, longings and fears. While still searching, I am tuned into the world around me, enjoy observing people, let myself be led by what I meet in the way of stories, people – and films, of course.”
Nouri Bouzid
[on the film “Making Of”] "The media don’t report on those youths who refuse to become suicide bombers, but only on the attacks that are carried out. But the number of those who refuse is ten or 20 times higher. My goal was to show an example of someone who refuses to become a murderer."
