World Scene: Burkina Faso

Africa's biggest film festival

About 20,000 people attended Saturday's opening ceremony of Africa's biggest film festival FESPACO, which fetes its 40th year.

For this year's 21st edition of the bi-annual Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) the open-air screenings around the Burkina capital have been abandoned for more upmarket film halls with red carpets for stars and directors to make their grand entrance.