Category / Films 2025 / Wednesday NOV 12 2025
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AFRIKAMERA SHORTS – DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
18:00 CITY KINO WEDDING |
Tunisia/ Algeria/ South Africa/ Burkina Faso 2023-24 I Original version with English subtitles I 74 min
Q+A with Sahar El Echi (director of BORD À BORD)
Presented is an exclusive program curated by festival director Alex Moussa Sawadogo of outstanding short and medium-length films by filmmakers from the African continent and the African diaspora. The director of BORD À BORD, Sahar El Echi, will be present at the screening. -
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AFRIKAMERA SPECIAL: AFROTRONIX LIVE
19:30 MAAYA | Concert + Film Program |
Afrotronix is the current afrofuturistic band project of Chadian producer, guitarist, and singer Caleb Rimtobaye.
Film Program in Advance:
BETWEEN US AND SILENCE
Brenda Akele Jorde & David Simon Groß
Germany 2025 | Original Version with English Subtitles I 14 min
In the presence of the directorsBLACK JOY
Kemi Fatoba, We are DADDY Media
Germany/ United Kingdom 2024 I English Version with German Subtitles I 19 min
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MY FATHER’S SHADOW
18:30 FSK KINO |
Akinola Davies Jr. |
United Kingdom/ Nigeria 2025 | Original version with English subtitles I 94 min |Lagos in the summer of 1993. Nigeria is shaken by a political crisis following the annulled presidential elections. Brothers Remi and Akin live with their mother outside Lagos. One day, their usually absent but idolized father Fola shows up at the family home and takes them on a spontaneous trip to Lagos.
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ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE
19:00 HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG |
Babatunde Apalowo |
Nigeria 2023 | Original version with English subtitles I 92 min IFollowed by a discussion with Babatunde Apalowo (Director),
Adebisi Alimi (LGBTQI Activist/ London), Ulle Schauws (Member of Parliament)
Moderation: Ifeatu Nnaobi IIn cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation I
Admission free I
Bambino has settled into his single life as a delivery driver in the Nigerian metropolis of Lagos. He is happy with his job, helpful, and generous toward his neighbors. When he meets the charismatic Bawa, who wants to hire him as a model, a special connection develops between them—tender and understated.
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DIDY
20:00 BROTFABRIKKINO |
Gaël Kamilindi & François-Xavier Destors |
Rwanda/ Burundi/ Switzerland/ France 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 84 min |Gaël was only five years old when his mother died of AIDS. Her death was soon overshadowed by the devastating civil wars and genocides in Burundi and Rwanda.
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ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
20:00 CITY KINO WEDDING |
Rungano Nyoni |
Zambia/ United Kingdom/ Ireland 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 95 min |One should speak no ill of the dead—in ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL this unwritten rule is put to the test by Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni.
Shula has only recently returned to her Zambian homeland after a long absence. -
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DIYA
18:00 BROTFABRIKKINO |
Achille Ronaimou |
Chad/ France/ Germany/ Côte d’Ivoire 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 95 min |Q&A with the director to follow |
Dane works as a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N’Djamena and leads a peaceful life with his young wife Delphine, who is expecting a child.
On a fateful day, Dane accidentally hits 9-year-old student Younous with his car. He immediately takes him to the hospital, and his wife rushes to help pay for the medical expenses—but it is too late. The next day, when Dane returns to the hospital to check on the boy, he learns that Younous has died. The child’s parents are devastated and demand Diya—blood money—threatening that otherwise a family member of Dane’s would be killed. The sum demanded is so exorbitant that Dane cannot pay… -
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THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS
18:00 FSK KINO |
Agbajowo Collective |
Nigeria/ Germany/ South Africa/ USA 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 101 min |
Q&A with Bisola Akinmuyiwa to follow |Single mother Jawu bears the mark of a warrior king as a birthmark on her back, yet lives modestly with her son in the fictional community of Agbojedo, a floating waterfront settlement in the Lagos lagoon threatened by eviction.
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LES INVERTUEUSES
15:30 FSK CINEMA |
Chloé Aïcha Boro |
Burkina Faso | 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 96 min |
Q+A with the director to follow |
German Premiere |
In a working-class neighborhood of Ouagadougou lives a widowed grandmother who harbors a painful secret: she was once forced to marry a man she did not love. Forty-five years later, her heart still beats for her first great love. Her granddaughter Natie, a teenager struggling with her identity, discovers her grandmother’s passion and does everything she can to bring the two lovers together – while also finding her own path. -
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TIMPI TAMPA
16:30 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA |
Adama Bineta Sow |
Senegal | 2024 I Original version with English subtitles | 83 min |20-year-old student Khalilou lives alone with his mother Rama in Dakar. She suffers from cancer after years of using skin-lightening creams to conform to the prevailing beauty ideal promoted by models on billboards and Senegalese television.
