Arts and Entertainment, 2nd prize
Stephan Zaubitzer
01 August, 2003
Open-air cinemas are a heritage of a once-flourishing film culture. The ten cinemas, all built to the same model but in different parts of the city, are venues for FESPACO, an African festival of arts and film. But the advent of 'Videodromes', halls equipped with DVD players and televisions screening American action movies, are posing a threat to the open-air cinemas. The cinemas are not economically viable, and are too expensive for the state to maintain, so the World Bank is pressing for their privatization.
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