An African road movie about four women wowed its audience Sunday as it kicked off the Panafrican cinema and television festival (Fespaco), a showcase for the continent`s burgeoning film industry. `Borders` (`Frontieres`) directed by Apolline Traore, a Fespaco laureate in 2013, sweeps across Africa as its protagonists journey through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Benin on their way to Nigeria. Along the way the women -- Ivorian, Senegalese, Burkinabe and Nigerian actresses -- are spared nothing as they are beset by customs officers, thieves, murderers and rapists. The film -- the first feature-length film to show at the festival -- deals with `the bravery of women,` Traore told AFP at the festival in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou. `There is a tendency to portray women, particularly African women, as housewives, sweet gentle women. But
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