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NOME
20:30 fsk | Sana Na N’Hada |
Frankreich / Portugal / Angola 2023 I OmeU I 118 min
| NOME, der dritte Spielfilm des guineischen Filmemachers Sana Na N’Hada erzählt in rauschhaften Bildern vom Unabhängigkeitskrieg der ehemaligen portugiesischen Kolonie Guinea-Bissau, die 1974 nach dreizehn Jahre Konflikt befreit wurde. -
AFRO FUTURE(S) FORUM
The AFRO FUTURE(S) FORUM forms part of the 16th edition of AFRIKAMERA, Current Cinema from Africa, which takes place from 14th to 19th of November across Berlin. The 2023 festival presents a selection of cinematic (future) visions from the metropolises of the African continent, ones that imagine a future beyond Western patterns of imagination.
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AFRIKAMERA SERIES: INVISIBLES / 4 EPISODES
19:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Alex Ogou |
Ivory Coast 2018 I TV series I Original Version with English Subtitles I 208 min | This ten-part series by Ivorian filmmaker Alex Ogou focuses on the everyday lives of violent street gangs that make entire districts of Abidjan unsafe. Exciting and touching at the same time, INVISIBLES sheds light on the social phenomenon of disoriented young people who actually only join the gangs to fight for a better life. In September 2018, INVISIBLES was the first francophone African series to be awarded the “Out of Africa” prize and won the prize for the best foreign francophone story at the La Rochelle Festival. -
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AS NOITES AINDA CHEIRAM A PÓLVORA (THE NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER)
19:00 ARSENAL | Inadelso Cossa |
Mozambique/ Germany/ France/ Portugal/ Netherlands/ Norway 2024 | Original Version with English Subtitles | 93 min
| In this poetic film essay, Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa returns to the village of his childhood after many years to relive the memories of the civil war that devastated Mozambique from 1977 to 1992. He meets his grandmother Maria, who is now suffering from the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease: Between truth and fiction, memory and forgetting, AS NOITES AINDA CHEIRAM A PÓLVORA is a testimony to the resilience of human memory. Cossa uses the means of cinema to recapture lost fragments of history and to encounter the ghosts that live on in the darkness of social silence. -
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NOME
18:00 BROTFABRIKKINO | Sana Na N’Hada |
Frankreich / Portugal / Angola 2023 I OmeU I 118 min
| NOME, the third feature film by Guinean filmmaker Sana Na N’Hada, uses intoxicating images to tell the story of the war of independence in the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau, which was liberated in 1974 after thirteen years of conflict. -
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BUFIS
20:30 fsk | Mahad Ahmed & Vincenzo Cavallo |
Kenya/ Germany 2023 | Original Version with English Subtitles I 105 min |Nairobi’s Eastleigh district is home to many exiled Somalis who have fled the civil war in their home country. Once a year, when the Kenyan US embassy opens its doors for the visa lottery, Assad’s time has come: the gifted storyteller puts together fake families from the scattered refugees, develops fictitious family stories and coaches his clients until their stories are truly credible. Based on true events, BUFIS is a humorous and touching story about lifelong dreams.
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BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS
20:30 ARSENAL | Mohamed Ben Attia |
Tunisia/ Belgium/ France/ Saudi Arabia/ Qatar 2023 | Original Version with English Subtitles| 98 min |After an outbreak of violence in his office, young family man Rafik ends up in prison for four years. Back in freedom, he wants to take his young son Yassine to the mountains to show him that he can fly. When his wife refuses, he kidnaps Yassine without further ado.
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SITABAOMBA (WHERE ZEBUS SPEAK FRENCH)
20:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Nantenaina Lova |
Madagascar 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 103 min |For the inhabitants of the village of Sitabaomba near Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, French is not the language of love, but of colonization. They speak French when they order their zebu oxen in the field to go left and right, and their local language in puppetry and Kabary, the Malagasy art of oratory. Filmmaker Nantenaina Lova accompanies rice farmer Ly and other villagers in their struggle to defend their land against attacks by the state, the military and multinational corporations.
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DEMBA
20:30 ARSENAL | Mamadou Dia |
Senegal/ Germany 2024 | Original Version with English Subtitles | 119 min |
In the presence of the director
|The focus of Mamadou Dia’s second feature film is a lonely widower struggling with the loss of his wife Awa. After being forced into early retirement after 30 years at the town hall of a small town, Demba experiences a mental breakdown.
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AFRIKAMERA CINE CONCERT
20:00 CITY KINO WEDDING | ORIKI PRESENT: DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY: LE FRANC (1994)
