Category / Films 2024 / FR 15 NOV 2024 EN
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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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AFRIKAMERA–FESTIVALPARTY WITH DJ TMNIT
23:00 – 01:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | Free entry
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AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE
21:00 ARSENAL | Egypt / Ethiopia / Ghana / Tanzania and others I English subtitles I 109 min
| The focus is on short and medium-length formats that deal with phenomena of spirituality, the supernatural and hope. -
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KATOPE
AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Walt Mzengi Corey |
Tanzania 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 13 min
| This captivating fantasy drama, starring an all-amateur cast, tells the story of a little girl born at the beginning of the dry season who sets out on a perilous journey with a mysterious rainbird to end the devastating drought afflicting her community. -
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TIMIS (DUSK)
AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Awa Moctar Gueye |
Senegal 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 16 min | Goo Pa Kong-Kong is an eerie man. No one knows what he carries in the strange bag on his shoulders, but it is rumored that he tortures naughty children. He lives alone in Ñetty Mbar, a desolate, gloomy market on the outskirts of Dakar. Not a place for children, but that doesn’t stop Binta, a curious and brave girl who has just drawn the white marble that makes her the leader of her gang of children. She decides to confront Pa Kong-Kong on his turf. She is afraid, but she is determined to prove that girls can be leaders. So she sets off. It is pitch dark in the market. What will she discover? -
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YAA
AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Amartei Armar |
Ghana / France 2022 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 20 min |
Three defining moments in Ghana’s history from 1948 to the present are reflected in the experiences of three women, whose souls, representative of their generation, are unwittingly connected through space, time and ancestral heritage. As each of them discovers who she is, one thing becomes clear: hope must prevail. -
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I PROMISE YOU PARADISE
AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Morad Mostafa |
Egypt/ France/ Qatar 2023 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 25 min |
Ai Shams, a neighborhood in Cairo: After a violent incident, Eissa, a 17-year-old African migrant in Egypt, finds himself in a race against time to save his young wife and baby, whatever the cost. A moving film, full of humanity despite all the bleakness. -
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ALAZAR
AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: BELIEVE 21:00 ARSENAL | Beza Hailu Lemma |
Ethiopia/ France/ Canada 2024 I Original Version with English Subtitles I 35 min |
A farming community in Ethiopia is confronted with existential questions when the body of a family patriarch mysteriously disappears from his grave. Beza Hailu Lemma’s deeply moving drama explores the consequences.
