Category / Films 2025 / Friday NOV 14 2025
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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 coproducer Frieder Schlaich 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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MIKOKO
19:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA |
Angela Aquereburu Rabatel |
Togo 2025 | Original version with English subtitles | 98 min |
Q+A with the director to follow |
German Premiere |Déla Otimi has worked as a vendor at Mikoko Market for over twenty years. She frequently complains to her husband Apollinaire, the city mayor, about the many structural problems.
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PROMIS LE CIEL (PROMISED SKY)
21:30 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA |
Erige Sehiri |
Tunesien/ Frankreich/ Katar 2025 | OmeU | 95 min |
(Rerun) |
In Tunis, three migrant women from Côte d’Ivoire live together like a chosen family. Their everyday life is marked by a tense social climate and daily discrimination.
Ivorian pastor Marie has been living there for ten years and runs an underground church in her illegally rented apartment. Her home becomes a refuge for Jolie, a determined student from a wealthy family, and the lively Naney, who had to leave her child behind during her flight from Côte d’Ivoire.
