The Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, founded in 1969, is the oldest biannual film festival dedicated to African films TAKING a city or region as their exhibition venue, film festivals showcase cinematic arts and are often exciting spaces to release new and frequently independent cinema to the world. They are global art events that inspire travel and the consumption of a medium that has only grown in power from the invention of the first motion picture camera in the 1890s to today. The oldest film festival in the world is the Venice Film Festival, which began in Italy in 1932.

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