Category / Films 2025 / Saturday NOV 15 2025
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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.
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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. -
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PROMIS LE CIEL (PROMISED SKY)
19:30 OPENING | CITY KINO WEDDING |
Erige Sehiri |
Tunesien/ Frankreich/ Katar 2025 | OmeU | 95 min |
In the presence of the director |
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. -
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HANAMI
18:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA |
Denise Fernandes |
Cape Verde / Switzerland / Portugal | 2024 | Original version with English subtitles | 96 min |HANAMI tells the coming-of-age story of Nana, who was left as a baby on a remote volcanic island by her mother Nia. When Nana falls seriously ill, she is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment, where she encounters a world between dream and reality.
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KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS
18:30 CITY KINO WEDDING | Dani Kouyaté |
Burkina Faso | 2025 | Original version with English subtitles | 113 min
Q+A with the director to follow | Set in the imaginary African kingdom of Ganzurgu, KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Shot in black and white and in Mooré, Dani Kouyaté presents the timeless, universal story of power and political intrigue in a fresh form. -
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BREAKING INTO THE INDUSTRY: TRAINING AND STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS (TALK)
14:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA |
With Chanelle Ellaya (Ladima Foundation South Africa), Paula Essam (Actress, Author, Board member ProQuote Film), and Mariame N’Diaye (Director) |
Moderation: ShaNon Bobinger (Moderator, systemic Life & Business Coach, DEI Consultant) |
In cooperation with Deutsche Afrika Stiftung
|The Ladima Foundation, active in several African countries, supports, trains, and mentors women in various roles across film, television, and content creation. ProQuote Film does the same in Germany. In this exchange, the speakers will explore opportunities, developments, and synergies to increase the visibility and presence of women in the film industry.
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AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: CHANGE (SHORT FILM PROGRAM)
15:00 CITY KINO WEDDING |
In the presence of Mariame N’Diaye (LANGUE MATERNELLE) |The short film program focuses on short and mid-length films that explore questions of emancipation and (female) empowerment.
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MAMBAR PIERRETTE
16:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA |
Rosine Mbakam |
Cameroon / Belgium | 2023 | Original version with English subtitles | 93 min |Over the past ten years, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam (CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE, DELPHINE’S PRAYERS) has made a name for herself with sensitive, observational documentary portraits of African women.
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KHARTOUM
17:30 FSK CINEMA |
Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M. Ahmed, Phil Cox |
Sudan | 2025 | Original version with English subtitles | 80 min | (Rerun)Equipped with donated iPhones, four Sudanese filmmakers—Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, and Timeea M. Ahmed—began in 2022, together with British writer-director Phil Cox, documenting the lives and dreams of five very different people in Khartoum, struggling to survive in the chaos of their home country.
