is a rare opportunity for african storytellers to showcase their creations on a global stage. nicholas hock is at the festival forests. beyond the glitz and glamour on display, on the red carpet, the fest bucko is about this. want you movies there? chew you up to watch the latest movie from the franco senegalese director, much job a film that was recognized in the count fist film festival. but for her, it's important to show it right here in burkina faso. this is what she had to say. i think the big deal for me to share this movie with the audience tonight with the booking abbey. again, tonight, beyond the festival, the and the price, the and the competition. we tend to forget that the most important thing is very deep relationship between a film and the spectators. the public over $200.00 movies have been selected to science fiction, movies, comedies, animations, documentaries, and also experimental experimental movies from more than 50 african countries including synagogue. that's honored in this year's 1st puzzle because uh, this is the best neighbor ever. this is a country of resistance

after being asked to in 2014 nicholas hock is following the trial for us in deka. hello, then nicholas, the trial started earlier was suspended. now it's back on what exactly is happening . well emily, as you mentioned, it's back on the after 2 judges to assessor judges. so there's 5 presiding judges to substitute 2 assessors. 2 of the 3rd, assessors recuse themselves from the case. one of him saying that he was unfit, sick, unable to, to act as an assessor. the other one is saying that he worked closely with former president compar ray and general gen dairy. 2 of those people that are accused by the court of the assassination of san car, and therefore that he presents a bias to be an impartial judge in this case. so the judges for a brief moment held and dismissed the trial, and now they're back into action. this trial has been 34 years into waiting. there's been much anticipation to see this trial take place. it was buried under president compar and that revived after he was deposed in a popular uprising in 2014. in 2015. the body of compulsory was exempt. the gov

film and television festival of mortgage is good will be attended by top african film directors. nicholas hock is there in between of us as capital was too good for film over e sick. i wonder bad blood sounds like an enticing title worth watching on the big screen. the $2.00 ticket he purchased to watch the cameroon in drama is a luxury for, but can i be artist? but he says, it's worth it. experience the magic of african cinema de la slim ball. i love going to movies because when the quality is good it can teach you something and question your believe. it also allows me to observe the world from inside the cinema here more with the opening of the pan african film and television festival of walk. i do also known as facebook. co. quando will have plenty of movies to choose from. 200 selected films are playing across dozens of venues in the capital. among them, an angle in fiction, in which air conditioners stop working and start falling from the sky, leaving the port to find ways to cool the rich than their spread out you a he should coming of age. moving a dark drama from la soto to dinner, in

and they're calling for con days. release. nicholas hock is following the story from decker in neighboring senegal. wearing sunglasses inside the integration halt, lieutenant colonel, monday to be at the head of the special forces that had toppled alpha convey a month ago. i'm swearing in as the new president in transition holding not the constitution or religious book, but rather the charter of transition that was written by himself and not the constitution because he said that that text was abused by the former, present alpha con. they who had tweak the constitution, allowing him to run for a 3rd mandate. it was in that very room that author county was sworn in less than a year ago. now he sits in house arrest watching the ceremony unfold. present during this, a ceremony were members of his own political parties. actors of civil society. i would probably go, did you knew the republic of guinea has known since half september 2021? a political change. so after the takeover of power by the army. this followed along social, political, and economic crisis is that was confronting the country.

revolutionary leader who had called an african countries to default an unfair international debt. nicholas hock has more from neighboring synagogue. absent in this trial is the men accused for prison. bliss compo currently and exile in neighboring ivory coast. now his lawyers say that they do not recognize the legitimacy of this military tribunal. there is however, his right hand man, general gender, who will be who will be talking in this trial. he's been in prison for attempted coo and he's one of the mean suspect in the killing of toma sanker up. this trial has been 34 years in the waiting, and there is much anticipation to find out who exactly is behind the killing of this iconic figure that goes beyond burkina. faso is border. thomas ankara is a mythical figure, perhaps because of the circumstances of his death is shrouded with mystery. with some accusing the former colonial power, france of being involved in his killing numberless. this figure that was environmental as before, his time of feminist, before his time is revered by millions of people throughout french speaking africa . take a

those facing charges, but he's now a bags on in the ivory coast and his boy counting the trial. nicholas hock has more from why good to go. it's in this banquet hall, normally a place of celebration that the trial of thomas hunker, as a ledge assassins, has begun. broken f, us as president and 12 others died during a cou in 1987 inside the mood of somber. it's the 1st time the accused are facing the families of the victims, sanker, his wife, miriam, as waited 34 years for this moment, hoping the military tribunal will finally provide answers to her questions. why did sancho as closest and most trusted friends betray and kill him? who was behind the plot? was france the formal colonial power involved? and if so, why? sitting smiling in defiance in the dock of the accused 12 aging officers among them . generalities. belgian denny absent is a man perhaps who was able to answer miriam's questions. former president bless kal bowie. he took over power after suncrest killing and ruled for 27 years until a popular uprising depose him. in 2014 compulsory now lives in exile in ivory coast . it is refus