Category / Films 2026 / Sunday NOV 15 2026
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MIKUBA (COBALT) (rerun)
4 PM KINO ARSENAL |
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo |
DR Congo / USA 2025, Original with English subtitles, 60 min |
In his compelling documentary, Congolese filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo offers rare insights into the world of cobalt mining in Kolwezi in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
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GOUNDAFA, LE CHANT MAUDIT
8:30 PM KINO ARSENAL |
Ali Benjelloun |
Morocco 2025, Original with English subtitles, 96 min |
Q&A with the director (Zoom) |
In an Amazigh village in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, three young musicians dream of making it big, while the women work the land, singing with infectious joy. -
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THE FORTUNATE
THE FORTUNATE |
Habtamu Gebrehiwot |
Ethiopia 2025, Original with English subtitles, 15 min |During a pastoral counselling session with a choir singer, Pastor Mateyos finds himself caught in a moral dilemma. Gradually, secrets and contradictions come to light that threaten to shake not only his own life but also the congregation he leads.
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SUMARA MARÉ
SUMARA MARÉ |
Samira Vera-Cruz |
Cape Verde 2023, Original with English subtitles, 8 min |On the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, many women depend on collecting and selling sand from the beaches to make a living. Yet in doing so, they are also destroying the very natural resources on which their livelihoods depend.
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THE LAST HARVEST
THE LAST HARVEST |
Nuno Boaventura Miranda |
Cape Verde, Portugal 2025, Original with English subtitles, 22 min |
In Lisbon’s Cape Verdean community, the lives of three people intersect: young Gabriel fears he will forget the face of his late father. -
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AN OPEN FIELD
Teboho Edkins |
South Africa / France /Germany 2025 I Original with English subtitles, 38 min |
In the presence of the director |Following the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX in Ethiopia in March 2019, which claimed the lives of 157 people, including Teboho Edkins’ younger brother, the filmmaker and his father travel together to the crash site.
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AFRIKAMERA SHORTS – DIRECTORS’ CHOICE
8 PM SPUTNIK KINO |
AFRIKAMERA SHORTS – DIRECTORS’ CHOICE |
Cape Verde / Ethiopia / South Africa among others 2023-25, Original with English subtitles I 83 min |
In the presence of Teboho Edkins (director of AN OPEN FIELD) |The programme, curated exclusively for the festival by festival director Alex Moussa Sawadogo, presents an outstanding selection of short and medium-length works by filmmakers from the African continent and the African diaspora.
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LA COULEUR DU PHOSPHATE
6:30 PM KINO ARSENAL |
Ridha Tlili |
Tunisia 2024, Original with English subtitles, 76 min |In the Tunisian mining town of Redeyef, phosphate dust is everywhere. It shapes both the landscape and the daily lives and health of the people who have lived in the shadow of the mine for generations.
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CONGO BOY (rerun)
6 PM FSK KINO |
CONGO BOY (rerun) |
Central African Republic/ France/ DR Congo/ Italy 2026, Original with English subtitles, 91 min -
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THE FISHERMAN
9 PM KINO ARSENAL |
Zoey Martinson |
Ghana 2024, Original version, 105 min |For decades, Atta Oko has made his living as a fisherman in a small coastal village in Ghana. When he is forced into retirement, his life is suddenly turned upside down. But then a talking fish ends up in his net, and everything changes.
