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Paris hosts 16th African Diaspora International Film Festival

FIFDA is screening 15 fiction and non-fiction films from 13 countries as it examines how societies confront wounds from the past.

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Paris is hosting the 16th African Diaspora International Film Festival, known as FIFDA, from 4 to 6 September.

The programme includes 15 films from 13 countries, spanning fiction and non-fiction as well as feature-length and short works, according to France 24.

FIFDA provides a forum for members of African diasporas and uses film to examine how contemporary societies face and overcome wounds from the past.

The festival’s listed guests include Lawrence Cole, co-executive producer of Shadow of Greed, and Diarah N’Daw-Spech, a FIFDA co-founder and co-director.

The supplied information does not identify the screening venues, individual film titles or attendance figures.

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