Category / Films 2025 / Thursday NOV 13 2025

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.

19:00 HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG |
Babatunde Apalowo |
Nigeria 2023 | Original version with English subtitles I 92 min I

Followed by a discussion with Babatunde Apalowo (Director),
Adebisi Alimi (LGBTQI Activist/ London), Ulle Schauws (Member of Parliament)
Moderation: Ifeatu Nnaobi I

In 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.

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.

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.