Afrique 50

Afrique 50
Directed by	René Vautier
Screenplay by	René Vautier
Produced by	Ligue française de l’Enseignement
Cinematography	René Vautier
Edited by	René Vautier
Music by	Keita Fodela
Release date	1950
Running time	17 minutes
Country	France

Afrique 50 is a 1956 French documentary film directed by René Vautier. The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years.

References

• African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)