Telling a history of African cinemas from the quest for the first film directed by an African is the project of a documentary screened at the 73rd Berlinale: In the film cemetery.
Guinean filmmaker Thierno Souleymane Diallo goes in search of Mouramani, the first film from black French-speaking Africa, shot in 1953 in Paris by Mamadou Touré, the first cinematographic gesture from black French-speaking Africa. In the film cemetery is presented in the section Panorama of the Berlinale will also be in competition at Fespaco in the documentary section. Sophie Torlotin talks with the director, the Guinean Thierry Souleymane Diallo.