Changing Faces Will Make History At FESPACO 2009

Faruk Lasaki's Changing Faces will make history at the 2009 African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) as the first Nigerian film that will be screened in a French version
in an African film festival. Changing Faces will be screened in the category of African Video - Panorama between 28th of February and 7th of March 2009 at the African film festival, held biannually in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

According to Robert Minangoy, the Regional Audio- Visual Attache of the French Embassy in Nigeria, Changing faces and four other Nigerian films will be shown at FESPACO. They are the following:
• TRAPPED DREAM by Ubaka Joseph Ugochukwu
• OLURONBI by Buariu Adebayo Ogundimu
• ARUGBA and
• LIFE IN SLOW MOTION by Tunde Kelani.