The Panafrican Festival in Algiers (1969): Cast

The film follows William Klein documenting the 1970s Pan‑African Festival in Algiers, showing music, dance and street performances across the city. He records rehearsals, concerts and preparations, weaving interviews with writers and freedom‑movement advocates into archival footage. The montage links the celebrations to colonialism, neocolonialism, exploitation and the revolutionary struggle for independence.

• WK Director William Klein

• Nina Simone as themselves
• MM Miriam Makeba as themselves
• AS Archie Shepp as themselves
• RD René Depestre as themselves

• Mode in France 1985
• The French 1982
• The Little Richard Story 1980
• May Days 1978