Category / Films 2026 / Wednesday NOV 11 2026
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L’ARBRE DE L’AUTHENTICITÉ (rerun)
8 PM | KINO ARSENAL |
Sammy Baloji |
Belgium / DR Congo 2025, Original with English subtitles, 89 min | followed by a Q&A with Edson Anibal (voice-over) |Amid one of the largest rainforests on the African continent lie the ruins of what was once one of the world’s largest tropical agricultural research centers – the INERA Yangambi Research Station, located on the banks of the Congo River.
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MOTHER CITY
6:30 PM | HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG |
Miki Redelinghuys, Pearlie Joubert | South Africa 2024, Original with English subtitles, 103 min |
Followed by a discussion with Miki Redelinghuys, Nkosikhona (Face) Swartbooi (Reclaim the City) and other guests. Moderation: Niq Mhlongo|
in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation |
Free entry |
Cape Town is renowned as one of the world’s most beautiful cities and is a major global travel destination. At the same time, some 30 years after the end of apartheid, social and spatial inequality persists. MOTHER CITY follows Nkosikhona Swartbooi and the Reclaim the City movement in their fight for affordable housing and the right to participate in the life of the city. -
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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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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.
