“Maman Colonelle” – International Festivals and Awards

Dieudo Hamadi’s film “Maman Colonelle“, International Competition and Grand Prix Cinéma du réel 2017, is selected at the

It was programmed at the following film festivals: Escales documentaires, La Rochelle (France, November 2018), Festival du Film Documentaire, Saint Louis (Senegal, December 2017), Festival international du film d’éducation, Evreux (France, December 2017), RIDM – Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (Canada, November  2017), Festival Toiles sous toile, Clichy sous Bois (France, November 2017). Les Escales documentaires de Libreville, Libreville (Gabon, November 2017), IDFA – International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amesterdam (Netherlands, November 2017), Verzio International human rights documentary film festival, Budapest (Hungary, November 2017), Französische Filmtage Tübingen (Germany, November 2017), Viennale, Vienna (Austria, October – November 2017), DocBsAs, Buenos Aires (Argentina, October 2017), Festival dei Popoli, Florence (Italy, October 2017) where it received the Gian Paolo Paoli Award for Best Anthropological Film, FIFF, Festival international du film francophone, Namur (Belgium, September – October 2017) where it received the Jury’s Special Award, Zurich Film Festival, Zurich (Switzerland, September – October 2017), Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival, Nuremberg (Germany, September – October 2017), Dokufest – International Documentary and Short FIlm Festival, Prizren (Kosovo, August 2017),South African International Documentary Film Festival, Les Rencontres du film documentaire de Mellionnec (France, June-July 2017), Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa, June 2017), Festival Etonnants Voyageurs, Saint Malo (France, June 2017), Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield (United Kingdom, June 2017), AFI Docs Film Festival, Washington and Silver Spring (USA, June 2017), Les rencontres du film documentaire, Mellionnec (France, June – July 2017), Doc Cévennes, Lasalle (France, May 2017), Millenium Doc against Gravity, Warsaw (Poland, May 2017), Dok fest, Munich (Germany, May 2017), Festival de cine Africano, Tarifa and Tanger (Marocco, April/May 2017) where it received the best actress award.