
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.