The Distribution of Films by the Institut français of Lomé (Togo): Challenges of Acting in a Country without a Cinematic Past
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4 avril 2024
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Claude Forest, « The Distribution of Films by the Institut français of Lomé (Togo): Challenges of Acting in a Country without a Cinematic Past », Presses universitaires du Septentrion, ID : 10670/1.hori6o
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Togo is a very small, sparsely populated country (of eight million inhabitants) and remains predominantly rural. As the nation began producing feature films only very recently, it has been the home to just a few scattered theaters since the early days of cinema. The last one closed in 2009, before the recent 2017 opening of a single-screen Canal Olympia theater in the center of the capital, followed by a second establishment opening in late 2018 in the nearby suburbs. However, their activiti...