Category / Films 2025 / Saturday NOV 15 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.