Category / AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: UTOPIAS / DYSTOPIAS / Filme 2023 / Kurzfilm
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HELLO, RAIN
C.J. ‘FIERY’ OBASI
Nigeria 2018 I OV with engl. subs I 30 minIScientist Rain uses juju rituals and modern technology to make wigs that give her and her friends supernatural powers. In the process, she discovers that the powers she has created prove to be uncontrollable and threaten to destroy the nation.
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MULIKA
MAISHA MAENE I Democratic Republic of Congo 2022 I OV with engl. subs I 14 min
In the presence of the directorIGoma, in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province: an “Afronaut” climbs out of the wreckage of his spaceship in the crater of the Nyiragongo volcano and wanders through the city to change the future for the better in exchange with the inhabitants.
Maisha Maene’s poetic short film is a reference to the teacher and activist Edward Makuka Nkoloso, who in the 1960s pursued the “African Dream” of a Zambian moon mission with his “Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy”. See also the screening of AFRONAUTS on 19 Nov as part of the AFRO FUTURE(S) SHORTS programme at Sinema Transtopia.
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QU’IMPORTE SI LES BETES MEURENT
SOFIA ALAOUI I
France / Morocco I 2020 I OV with engl. subs I 24 min IHigh up in the Atlas Mountains, the shepherd boy Abdellah and his father are snowed in in their sheepfold and Abdellah has to go to a faraway village to get food. But strange things happen there and Abdellah’s view of the world is shaken.
Shot in the Atlas Mountains with amateur actors in the Berber language Tamazight, QU’IMPORTE SI LES BETES MEURENT won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and the 2021 César for Best Short Fiction Film. -
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AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: UTOPIAS / DYSTOPIAS
21:00 ARSENAL |
Rwanda / Nigeria / Democratic Republic of Congo a.o. 2018-23 I OV with engl. subs I 99 min |
In the presence of Maisha Maene (MULIKA), Kantarama Gahigiri (TERRA MATER) and the film team of YE! -
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KELASI
FRANSIX TENDA LOMBA I
Belgium / Democratic Republic of Congo 2021I OV with engl. subs I 10 min
IThe short film KELASI, realised with different animation and collage techniques, is a historical foray through the Congo’s education system and its ideological instrumentalisation by politics until today.
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ANGLE MORT
LOTFI ACHOUR I
France / Tunisia 2021 I OV with engl. subs I 13 min I
In his animated documentary ANGLE MORT, Tunisian filmmaker Lotfi Achour tells the story from a first-person perspective of a man who is kidnapped, tortured and killed in 1991 under the rule of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali. Thirty years later, his mother asks about the whereabouts of his body. -
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A LA RECHERCHE D’ALINE
ROKHAYA MARIEME BALDE |
Switzerland / Senegal 2021 I OV with engl. subs I 27 min
|To make a film about the Senegalese resistance heroine Aline Sitoé Diatta, Balde returns to Dakar. In the process, the search for the “real Aline” turns out to be just as important as the planned re-enactment of her story. In the presence of the director.
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BAB SEBTA
Von RANDA MAROUFI I
France / Morocco 2019 I OV with engl. subs I 19 min
IThrough a series of reconstructed scenes, this experimental short documentary traces the aesthetics and dynamics of the transit space of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave located in northern Africa on the Strait of Gibraltar, where Maroufi’s father had worked as a customs officer.
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MIRROR MIRROR
SANDULELA ASANDA I
South Africa 2022 I OV with engl. subs I 9 min
ISouth African director Sandulela Asanda’s comedic coming-of-age story features a video call between 17-year-old Luthando and her best friend Jodie. Together they try to explore their sexuality and find out what it means to be a woman. Both entertaining and empowering, this short feature film had its world premiere in Shortcuts at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
