Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Filmmaking on the African Continent: On the Centrality of Human Rights Thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt

Part I: Perspectives

1. Human Rights, Africa, and Film: A Cautionary Tale / Mark Gibney

2. African Cinema: Perspective Correction / Rod Stoneman

3. Africa's Gift to the World: An Interview with Gaston Kaboré / Rod Stoneman

4. Toward New African Languages of Protest: African Documentary Films and Human Rights / Alessandro Jedlowski

5. Challenging Perspectives: An Interview with Jean-Marie Teno / Melissa Thackway

6. In Defense of Human Rights Filmmaking: A Response to the Skeptics, Based on Kenyan Examples / Mette Hjort

7. The Zanzibar International Film Festival and Its Children Panorama: Using Films to Socialize Human Rights into the Educational Sector and a Wider Public Sphere / Martin Mhando

Part II: Cases

8. Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé: Peoples' Rights vs Human Rights / Samba Gadjigo

9. Haile Gerima's Harvest: 3000 Years in the Context of an Evolving Language of Human Rights / Ashish Rajadhyaksha

10. Abducted Twice? Difret (2015) and Schoolgirl Killer (1999) / Tim Bergfelder

11. Timbuktu and "L'homme de haine" / Kenneth Harrow

12. Beats of the Antonov: A Counter-narrative of Endurance and Survival / N. Frank Ukadike

13. Human Rights Issues in the Nigerian Films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera

14. The Anti-Ecstasy of Human Rights: A Foray into Queer Cinema on "Homophobic Africa" / John Erni

15. Refugees from Globalization: "Clandestine" African Migration to Europe in a Human (Rights) Perspective / Eva Jørholt

Index

About the Author

Mette Hjort is Chair Professor of Humanities and Dean of Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is editor (with Ursula Lindqvist) of A Companion to Nordic Cinema.

Eva Jørholt is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and former editor in chief of the Danish Film Institute's journal Kosmorama. She is editor (with Mette Hjort and Eva Novrup Redvall) of The Danish Directors 2: Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema.