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The '''Cinema of the Central African Republic''' refers to the film industry of the [[Central African Republic]]. Asis one of the world's poorest countries, and the film industry is correspondingly small. The first film made in CAR appears to have been ''Les enfants de la danse'', a short French-made ethnographic documentary of 1970. [[Joseph Akouissone]] was the first Central African to make a film in the country, with his 1981 documentary ''Un homme est un homme'';<ref>Various (2000) ''Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire'', Editions Karthala, p. 29-30</ref> he was followed by the documentaries made in the 1980s by [[Léonie Yangba Zowe]].<ref>Various (2000) ''Les cinémas d'Afrique: Dictionnaire'', Editions Karthala, p. 493</ref><ref name="Harrow1997">{{cite book|last=Schmidt|first=Nancy|editor=Kenneth W. Harrow|title=With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9es6zZIb-NcC&pg=PA169|year=1997|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-0154-2|pages=169–70|chapter=Sub-Saharan African Women FIlmmakers}}</ref> Since then a series of ongoing conflicts and economic crises have severely limited the potential growth of film-making in the country. The first feature-length drama made in the country was ''Le silence de la forêt'', a 2003 CAR-Gabon-Cameroon co-production about the [[Biaka people]].<ref>JC Woodfrok (2006) ''Culture and Customs of the Central African Republic'', Greenwood Press, pg. 150</ref><ref name="StefansonPetty2014">{{cite book|author=Blandine Stefanson|editor=Blandine Stefanson; Sheila Petty|title=Directory of World Cinema Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n1RiCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA224|volume=39|year=2014|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-78320-391-8|page=224|chapter=Literary Adaptation}}</ref><ref name="Orlando2017">{{cite book|author=Valérie K. Orlando|title=New African Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Em8kDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|year=2017|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-7957-3|pages=72–}}</ref>
==List of Central African films==
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