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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]
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.
After failing sentimentally, with his family and at school, Bahta, a 25 years old breakdancer, feels down and, due to the Iraq war, reconsiders his clandestine escape.A rebel and disobedient by nature, the leader of a little breakdancer band, accomplishes many fearless deeds, provoking the police's anger.
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.
Three journalism students, Yasmine, Walid and Bilel, set off to investigate a cold case for a school film project. After visiting a mental hospital to interview Mongia, the mutilated survivor of an attack 20 years before, the trail leads them out to an isolated village.
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.
Nigerian Yoruba Community-Cotonou organization formed. [8] 1965 - Port constructed. [2] 1967 - Les Muses theatre troupe formed. [9] 1968 - Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou (musical group) and Société Béninoise de Textiles [2] [10] established in Cotonou. 1970 - Université du Dahomey founded. 1975 - City becomes part of the People's Republic ...