The scars of genocide, the reality of AIDS, a talking donkey and a transvestite mortician -- just some of the images of Africa being offered to movie fans at the continent's top film festival which starts this week. Fespaco, the biennial pan-African festival of film and television, kicks off on Saturday in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, transforming the dusty, moped-jammed city into the Cannes of Africa for eight days. James Knight and Katrina Manson report for Reuters.
