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The name "Cotonou" means "by the river of death" in the Fon language. [5] At the beginning of the 19th century, Cotonou (then spelled "Kutonou") was a small fishing village, and is thought to have been formally founded by King Ghezo of Dahomey in 1830. [5] It grew as a centre for the slave trade, and later palm oil and cotton. [5]
Wishing to put Dahomey, which had returned to relative political stability, at the same technical level as its West African neighbors, President Pompidou's France relaunched the process via French cooperation and delivered to Cotonou the television production and broadcasting infrastructures in the course of the year 1972.
Robert Lang, New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance, Columbia University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-231-16507-5 Florence Martin, "Cinema and State in Tunisia" in: Josef Gugler (ed.) Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence, University of Texas Press and American University in Cairo Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-292-72327-6, ISBN 978-9-774-16424-8, pp 271–283
The Rencontres cinématographies et numériques de Cotonou (ReCiCo) is a Beninese film festival established in 2019. The first edition of ReCiCo was held in September 2019. [ 1 ] The jury for the 2019 special jury prize consisted of Jacques Béhanzin, Florisse Adjanohoun, Akambi Akala and Djaz.
In June of the same year, the film laboratory of the RTT began to develop color films. RTT was renamed RTT 1 in 1983, following the creation of RTT 2. With the change in the presidency of the republic on November 7, 1987, the channel became TV7 (قناة 7) in 1992, then Tunis 7 in 1997.
Arab Blues (French: Un divan à Tunis, lit. 'A couch in Tunis') is a 2019 French-Tunisian comedy film directed by Manele Labidi Labbé in her feature debut. [3] [4] It was screened in the Venice Days section at the 2019 Venice Film Festival [5] and then in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
Golden Butterfly (French: Papillon d'Or, Arabic: الفراشة الذهبية, romanized: al-farāsha aḏ-ḏahabiyya) is a 2021 Tunisian drama film directed by Abdelhamid Bouchnak. [1] It was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards .
Television in Tunisia reaches 94% of households. The dominant platform in the market is free satellite, though terrestrial platform reaches around 15% of the households. [1]