Category / BEST OF FESPACO 2023 / Filme 2023 / Kurzfilm

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. In the process, Fatima finds out that it is the market where her mother sells goods.

ANDRIAMINOSOA HARY JOËL RAKOTOVELO I
Madagascar 2022 I OV with engl. subs I 20 min
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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 the present?

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 imam. And he is waiting for the last visit of his parents…

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, Okai believes his brother is still out there….