Category / AK26 SHORTS • REFLECT / Films 2026

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.

4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
Randa Maroufi |
France, Morocco, Italy, Qatar 2025, Original with English subtitles, 26 min
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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.

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.

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.

4 PM CITY KINO WEDDING |
LIFE ON THE HORN |
Mo Harawe |
Somalia, Austria, Germany 2020, Original with English subtitles, 25 min |

Following the 2004 tsunami, damaged containers containing illegally dumped toxic waste washed up on the Somali coast, causing illnesses that have affected local communities ever since.