Category / Films 2024 / SA 16 NOV 2024

20:30 ARSENAL | Mamadou Dia |
Senegal/ Germany 2024 | Original Version with English Subtitles | 119 min |
In the presence of the director
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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.

20:00 CITY KINO WEDDING | ORIKI PRESENT: DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY: LE FRANC (1994)

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
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For over 30 years, 77-year-old Quirino has been the only inhabitant of the ghost village of Ribeira Funda

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.

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.