Category / Films 2026 / Sunday NOV 15 2026
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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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WATER & COLTAN | 360° SCREENING
WED 11 – SUN 15 NOV daily 6 PM |
MISS READ SPACE | Daniel Kötter, Yasmine Bisimwa, Olande Byamungu, Christian Muhigwa | Germany/ DR Congo 2021, Original with English subtitles, 52 min | SAT 14 NOV 7 PM Artist Talk with Daniel Kötter & Olande Byamungu | “Water & Coltan” explores the impact of mining on landscapes and communities in western Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While WATER imagines posthuman near-future scenarios for the former coal-mining region of the Ruhr, COLTAN takes its audience directly to the sites where women are fighting for their rights in artisanal coltan mining camps in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
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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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SACRED: HUMAN, ANIMAL AND PLANT | AUSSTELLUNG
Additional opening hours: THU 12 NOV, 6 PM–10 PM |
FRI 13+SAT 14 NOV, 4 PM–10PM |
SUN 15 NOV, 4 PM–8PM | |
NYABA LÉON OUEDRAOGO |
Vernissage & Artist talk |
Free entry |
Nyaba L. Ouedraogos photographic work investigates the sacred as a living space shaped by cultural, ecological, and spiritual tensions. In the series THE SACRED: HUMAN, ANIMAL AND PLANT, he explores how humans, animals, and plants coexist in environments where inherited practices remain closely intertwined with the present. The sacred crocodile pond of Bazoulé serves as a point of departure for examining the fragile balance between cultural heritage and ecological 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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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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WHY ISN’T THE DR CONGO THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? | TALK
2 PM MISS READ SPACE |
with Olande Byamungu (DR Kongo), activist and lawyer among others, Moderation Dr. Daniel Tödt (German Africa Foundation) |In Germany, there is still far too little awareness of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the most resource-rich countries in the world, which is currently also affected by an Ebola outbreak.
