Afro-Asian Film Festival

The Afro-Asian Film Festival (AAFF) was an International film festival which was held in Tashkent, Cairo, and Jakarta during 1958, 1960, and 1964 respectively.[1][2] The first Afro-Asian Film Festival took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1958. A total of 14 Asian and African countries participated, along with eight other Soviet Asian nations.[2][1][3][4]

Afro-Asian Film Festival
LocationTashkent
Cairo
Jakarta
Founded1958
LanguageInternational

History

Afro-Asian cinematic exchange took off during the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.[2] During that time large number of film industries in Japan, India, and Egypt took over other national cinemas in the region.[2] Most of the African territories remained had no independent regional film industries.[5][6] The official festival communique was announced in accordance with the "principles of the Bandung Conference" and "under the sign of peace and friendship among peoples".

The second edition was held in Cairo in 1960, it was organised by the ministry of culture in the framework of the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) and was the first ever international film festival in the city.[7] After two more editions in Cairo and Jakarta the Afro-Asian festival officially ended in 1964 due to political differences.[2][1][6]

Competitive Awards 1958, Tashkent
  • Best Film
  • Best Actor
  • Best Actress
  • Best Music Direction
  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Documentary Film

Competitive Awards 1960, Cairo

Competitive Awards 1964, Jakarta
  • Best Film - The Open Door / El bab el maftuh (Dir. Henry Barakat, Egypt, 1963)
  • Best Actor - S. V. Ranga Rao for Nartanasala / The Dance Pavilion (Dir. Kamalakara Kameswara Rao, India, 1963)
  • Best Actress - Faten Hamamah for The Open Door / El bab el maftuh (Dir. Henry Barakat, Egypt, 1963)
  • Best Music Direction
  • Best Art Direction - T.V.S Sarma for Nartanasala / The Dance Pavilion (Dir. Kamalakara Kameswara Rao, India, 1963)
  • Best Documentary Film

References
  1. Pathé, British. "Asian And African Film Festival In Tashkent". www.britishpathe.com.
  2. Elena Razlogova. Cinema in the Spirit of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 1957-1964
  3. "6th International Film Festival of India" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 1 November 1976. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  4. "Veerapandiya Kattabomman, The Film That Brought International Recognition to Tamil Cinema". News18. May 17, 2022.
  5. Kossaifi, Clara (15 September 2021). Cairo's First International Film Festival: African-Asian Solidarity, Modernity and Counter-Cultural Projects in the Age of Nasser (Thesis).
  6. Razlogova, Elena (2021). "Cinema in the Spirit of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 1957–1964". The Cultural Cold Warand the Global South. pp. 111–128. doi:10.4324/9781003133438-6-9. ISBN 9781003133438. S2CID 236291060.
  7. https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/handle/10938/23019


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