AFRIKAMERA SHORTS: CHANGE (SHORT FILM PROGRAM)
Burkina Faso / Ethiopia / Nigeria / Mali / France / Somalia | 2023–24 | Original version with English subtitles | 98 min
In the presence of Mariame N’Diaye (LANGUE MATERNELLE)
SUN NOV 16
15:00 CITY KINO WEDDING
The short film program focuses on short and mid-length films that explore questions of emancipation and (female) empowerment.
LANGUE MATERNELLE
Mariame N’Diaye
Mali, France | 2024 | Original version with English subtitles | 24 min
In the 1980s, Sira, a young woman from Mali, lives a peaceful life in France with her husband Malick and their daughter Abi. Her daily life is conducted in Soninké, the only language she fully speaks. However, as Abi struggles with French, the school suggests placing her in a special support class and asks the parents to speak primarily French at home. Sira refuses.
Mariame N’Diaye began writing film and theater projects eight years ago on topics such as young women’s abstinence and the French language from the perspective of immigrants (she teaches French as a Foreign Language and English). Her interest lies in presenting people who are both ordinary and universal, suddenly confronted with a situation that confuses them and must be faced. N’Diaye’s dual French-Malian culture allows her to empathize with the different characters she creates while also being seen and heard as a Franco-Malian. In 2023, Mariame N’Diaye directed her first short film, LANGUE MATERNELLE, produced by Golgota Productions.
Also in the program (more about the films coming soon):
SOUS LE RONIER, Baro Orokiatou | Burkina Faso | 2024 | OmeU 19 min
LE MÉDAILLON, Ruth Hunduma | UK, Ethiopia | 2023 | OmeU | 19 min
MUNA, Warda Mohamed | UK | 2023 | OmeU | 19 min
THE INCREDIBLE SENSATIONAL FIANCÉE OF SÈYI ÀJÀYI, Abbesi Akhamie | USA, Nigeria | 2024 | OmeU | 17 min