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AFRIKAMERA–FESTIVALPARTY WITH DJ TMNIT
23:00 – 01:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Free entry
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OMI NOBU (THE NEW MAN)
19:30 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Carlos Yuri Ceuninck |
Cape Verde 2022 I Original Version with English subtitles I 64 min
In the presence of the director
|For over 30 years, 77-year-old Quirino has been the only inhabitant of the ghost village of Ribeira Funda
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BLACK JEWS – BETA ISRAEL
17:00 ARSENAL |
Free admission |Saturday, November 16 & Sunday, November 17 ARSENAL |
The history of the Beta Israel or Falasha, an ethnic-religious group whose members originally came from Ethiopia and who have mostly emigrated to Israel since the late 1970s or were forced to emigrate, is largely unknown in this country.
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THE BURDEN
17:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Elvis Sabin Ngaībino |
Central African Republic/ France/ Democratic Republic of Congo/ Italy/ Germany 2023 I 80 min I Original Version with English subtitles I German premiere |Rodrigue and Reine live with their three children in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. They live off a meager cassava harvest and are very active in the local church, where the battle between God and Satan is central and belief in evil spirits, curses and witchcraft is widespread.
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LE MYSTERE DE WAZA (THE MYSTERY OF WAZA)
15:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Claye Edou |
Cameroon 2024 I Original Version with German subtitles I 97 min
Suitable for children aged 10 and up
|Four young high school graduates from Yaoundé have been accepted to the Université Scientifique du Sahel (CSS) and are looking forward to studying at the ultra-modern university in the north of the country.
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VUTA N’KUVUTE (TUG OF WAR)
17:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | With the kind support of the German Africa Foundation |
Amil Shivji |
Tansania/ Südafrika/ Katar/ Deutschland 2021 I OmeU I 92 min | Sansibar in den 1950er Jahren, in der Endphase der britischen Kolonialzeit. -
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Black Jews – Beta Israel
17:30 ARSENAL | Free admission | Screening |
WHAT HAS CHANGED |
Salomon Chekol |
Israel 2021 | Original Version with English subtitles | 15 min |WITH NO LAND |
Aalam-Warqe Davidian |
Israel 2021 | Original Version with English subtitles | 83 min |
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PANEL: VUTA N’KUVUTE – FILM AND/AS [TRANSLATED] LITERATURE
18:40 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | With the kind support of the German Africa Foundation | free admission
Successful literary adaptations are characterized by a sensitive and responsible approach that seeks to find the appropriate cinematic equivalent of the literary qualities of the original text. The media of literature and film are in a constant state of tension – whether productive and synergetic or competitive.
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THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE
ERÖFFNUNG | 19:30 ARSENAL |
Mo Harawe |
Somalia/ Österreich/ Frankreich/Deutschland 2024 | OmeU | 133 min |
In Anwesenheit des Regisseurs |Mamargade kämpft als alleinerziehender Vater in einem abgelegenen Dorf in Somalia mit den Herausforderungen des Alltags. Seine Schwester Araweelo sucht nach ihrer Scheidung bei ihm ein neues Zuhause. Cigaal, sein Sohn, kommt in den Turbulenzen der zerbrechlichen Familie manchmal zu kurz.
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YOU’RE MY FAVOURITE PLACE
20:30 ARSENAL | Jahmil X.T. Qubeka |
Südafrika 2022 | OmeU | 110 min | Im Mittelpunkt des Coming-of-Age-Films des preisgekrönten südafrikanischen Regisseurs Jahmil X.T. Qubeka steht ein junges Mädchen aus dem rauen Viertel East London, dessen Leben seit dem Tod ihrer Schwester Anathi nicht mehr dasselbe ist.
