Burkina Faso's capital city Ouagadougou is the location of the “official” showcase of African film, the FESPACO Film Festival, but here the acclaimed filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno spotlights the far livelier heart of African cinema: the run-down “cine clubs” where a bootleg DVD, an old TV, and a few benches keep film alive not with money or polish, but through sheer love. Bouba shows videos to a small group of patrons every night, while Jules-Cesar “advertises” the cinema on the streets outside by playing his drum and singing/proclaiming the night's lineup. A third man, Abbo, adds the written word to these forms of entertainment, inscribing community notices and personal slogans on any free wall he can find. Effortlessly switching among the three men's stories, Téno turns this tale of (a) cinema into a treatise on the arts in Africa-and the world-today, addressing how the moving image, music, and writing can affect society, and how they can flourish in even the bleakest settings.