AFRIKAMERA SHORTS – BEST OF FESPACO 2023

Nigeria / Burkina Faso a.o. 2022-2023 I OV with engl. subs I 86 min
In the presence of AMINA ABDOULAYE MAMANI (L’ENVOYEE DE DIEU)

SUN 19 NOV
18:00 ARSENAL

With the AFRIKAMERA SHORTS – BEST OF FESPACO 2023, festival director Alex Moussa Sawadogo, since 2020 also director of the largest Panafrican film festival in Burkina Faso, presents a selection of the best short film productions of the year.

L’ENVOYEE DE DIEU

18:00 ARSENAL | AMINA ABDOULAYE MAMANI | Burkina Faso / Niger / Rwanda 2023 I OV with engl. subs I 23 min | In this award-winning short film, 12-year-old Fatima is dropped off at a village market to blow herself up as a suicide bomber. She has ten minutes to kill the enemies of God.…

A DOLL HOUSE

ANDRIAMINOSOA HARY JOËL RAKOTOVELO I Madagascar 2022 I OV with engl. subs I 20 min I A young GEN Z man feels lost in modern metropolitan society and longs for a simpler life, far away from the masses. His goal: He wants to leave everything behind. Can he really succeed in escaping the impositions of…

WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME

MO HARAWE I Germany / Austria / Somalia 2022 I OV with engl. subs I 28 min I A policewoman accompanies Farah, a young prisoner sentenced to death, during his last hours in a Somali prison. The preparations for the execution have already begun, Farah is examined by a doctor and attended to by an…

TSUTSUE

AMARTEI ARMAR I Ghana / France 2022 I OV with engl. subs I 15 min I In a small Ghanaian town on the edge of a large headland that flows into the ocean, fishermen's sons Sowah and Okai struggle with the loss of their brother, who drowned during a fishing trip. Haunted by his death,…