Africa's biggest film festival

About 20,000 people attended Saturday's opening ceremony of Africa's biggest film festival FESPACO, which fetes its 40th year.

For this year's 21st edition of the bi-annual Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) the open-air screenings around the Burkina capital have been abandoned for more upmarket film halls with red carpets for stars and directors to make their grand entrance.