Category / Films 2026
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SPECIALS
TIME LOCATION |
DIRECTOR |
Specs |
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LA MÉMOIRE DU MANGUIER
8:30 PM KINO ARSENAL |
Nicolas Sawalo Cissé |
Senegal 2025, Original with English subtitles, 80 min |
in the presence of the director |Imam Habibi is a highly respected authority who holds his neighbourhood community together. Beneath a large mango tree, he listens to residents’ concerns and looks after their well-being.
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SOUMSOUM, LA NUIT DES ASTRES (rerun)
6:30 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
France/ Tchad 2026, Original with English subtitles, 99 min -
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L´homme qui plante les Baobabs
6 PM KINO ARSENAL |
Michel Kiswendsida Zongo |
Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire 2025, Original with English subtitles, 82 min |
In the presence of the director |For around fifty years, El Hadj Salifou Ouédraogo has been planting baobabs in his village in western Burkina Faso.
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GOUNDAFA, LE CHANT MAUDIT (rerun)
6 PM SPUTNIK KINO |
Ali Benjelloun |
Morocco 2025, Original with English subtitles, 96 min | -
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PARADISE GARDEN
4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Sonia Terrab |
France, Morocco 2025, Original with English subtitles, 16 min |Naima lives with her eleven-year-old son Ahmed in a slum on the outskirts of Casablanca. When the authorities plan to relocate the family, Ahmed has to change schools. But under the law, his father’s signature is required for the transfer, and he abandoned the family years ago.
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L´Mina
4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Randa Maroufi |
France, Morocco, Italy, Qatar 2025, Original with English subtitles, 26 min |
In the Moroccan mining town of Jerada, coal mining officially ceased in 2001, but informal mining continues to this day. L’MINA reconstructs work in the mine shafts using a set developed together with the town’s residents, who use it to recreate their own experiences of life and labour. -
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TIME TO CHANGE
4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Pocas Pascoal |
Portugal, Angola 2024, Original with English subtitles, 5 min, without dialogues |TIME TO CHANGE is a poetic reflection on the intertwined effects of colonialism and capitalism on ecosystems and humanity – a call for awareness, connection and change.
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AFRIKAMERA SHORTS – REFLECT
4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Burkina Faso / Angola / Somalia / Morocco u.a. 2020-25 I OV & Original with English subtitles, 83 min |
In the presence of Fabien Dao (director LE CHIEN DES SABLES / SAND DOG) |This short film program brings together short and medium-length works exploring environmental destruction and sustainability, solidarity, and the power of human connection to overcome personal crises. |
Fabien Dao, director of LE CHIEN DES SABLES / SAND DOG, will be present for a Q&A following the screening. -
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LE CHIEN DES SABLES / SAND DOG
4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Fabien Dao |
France, Burkina Faso 2026, Original with English subtitles, 19 min |
In the presence of the director |In a suburb of Paris, Sam, a directionless man in his thirties, takes in his young neighbour Abdou after the boy’s father attempts to take his own life.
