AFRIKAMERA – CURRENT AFRICAN CINEMA
The nonprofit cultural association, toucouler e.V., has since 2007 engaged in the intercultural dialogue between Africa and Germany.
With the "AFRIKAMERA - current African cinema" film festival, toucouleur e.V. seeks to counter the lack of awareness towards contemporary African film production in the German capital.
Assisted by the film media, AFRIKAMERA presents the overwhelming
diversity of the African continent, consisting not only of the "typical" problems , such as violence, deceases and natural desasters, to the Berliner audience. These stereotype images and opinions regarding the continent will be contrasted by the diverse facets of the actual everyday life in Africa, thus made perceptible for the movie goer.
AFRIKAMERA sees itself as a new permanent platform for dialogue between African moviemakers and the Berliner audience, and as a venue for exchange between filmmakers, producers and distributors.
To attain this, AFRIKAMERA cooperates with African film
festivals, from Marrakesh to Durban.
AFRIKAMERA 2011: AFRICAN FILMFESTIVALS – BEYOND PRESENT AND FUTURE
The 4th edition, AFRIKAMERA 2011: “African Filmfestivals - Beyond present and future”, will take place in Kino Arsenal from 16 - 20 November 2011, and present a program of current feature films and documentaries, compiled in close cooperation with AFRIKAMERA’s partner festivals.
The artistical directors of our partner festivals in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Tunisia, Madagascar, Rwanda and South Africa have selected a number of films for AFRIKAMERA that are of special significance for their festivals. Furthermore will representatives from the festivals be given the opportunity to provide an insight into their activites and make the spirit of the festivals tangible.
Accompanying the festival will AFRIKAMERA - in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation - present an international panel, discussing the theme “Dinosaur Cinema? African cinema on alternative routes”. Focal point will be on which direction the development of the film industry on the African continent takes and the role movie theatres and festivals - including their effect on the cultural and creative industries - play in this context.
The AFRIKAMERA film days are under the aegis of Dr. Uschi Eid.
