Category / Films 2025 / Sunday NOV 16 2025
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UNE SI LONGUE LETTRE
17:30 CITY KINO WEDDING |
Film screening & discussion |
Angèle Diabang |
Senegal | 2024 | Original version with English subtitles | 105 min
German Premiere |
Moderation: Arlette-Louise Ndakoze |
In cooperation with the Institut Français Deutschland |
With UNE SI LONGUE LETTRE, AFRIKAMERA presents the film adaptation of the bestselling novel by Senegalese author Mariama Bâ (1979) for the first time in Germany. -
KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS
18:00 BROTFABRIKKINO | Dani Kouyaté |
Burkina Faso | 2025 | Original version with English subtitles | 113 min | (Rerun) |
introduction of the director | 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. -
ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
21:00 HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT |
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese |
France / Lesotho / Germany / Qatar / Saudi Arabia | 2025 | Original version with English subtitles | 90 min |
Followed by a video talk with the director and Ibou Diop |In this poetic masterpiece, Mosese reflects through fragmented narratives and mythical imagery on personal experiences of uprootedness and belonging—a meditation on his childhood and growing up in Lesotho up to his journey into exile. Inspired by oral storytelling traditions, ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE is a poetic autobiography that unfolds in spirals and loops.
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KHARTOUM
21:30 CITY KINO WEDDING |
Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M. Ahmed, Phil Cox |
Sudan | 2025 | Original version with English subtitles | 80 min | introduction by Marwa Zein (filmmaker)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.