THE LIONS
Les Lions
Dir.: Jean-Frederic de Hasque
2017 | 90 min
Belgium
Shooting location: Benin
Mourit, Andre Vincent and Joe are great leaders of the Lions Club, among them one is white. The director follows them in Benin and in Brazzaville in their clubs monitoring meetings. They take care as much of the good payment of dues, as of strict observance of the protocol, the singing of the hymn, the uniforms. What is emerging through these meetings is the extraordinary motivation within the African Continent clubs. The goal is to become an Independent continent in the Lions Club International, by dispensing with the Indian and Lebanese guardianship, for that you need to recruit more members. This voluntary action becomes a national and pan-African challenge, for African Lions are also important economic and political actors.
The film is screened in French with subtitles in Latvian and English.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.
Jean-Frédéric de Hasque (1970) was born in Brussels, Belgium. He studied plastic arts, photography and video at the School of Graphic Research (ESA-ERG) in Brussels from 1990 to 1995. He was Professor of Photography and Video from 2003 to 2008. In 1999, in response to bug / IT buzz of the famous passage in 2000, he made his first documentary about the passage of 2000 in a Togolese village "36 things to do before 2000", (2001).
In 2011, he began filming "The Lions" about the Lions Club in Benin. This film follows a doctoral research which led him to follow the club members in their pan-African odyssey to Brazzaville. His thesis entitled "Benin's elite, ethnography of a class social booming from a transnational association. Lions Club" was completed in 2017.