WED 19 NOV 17:00 – 22:00 SINEMA TRANSTOPIA | followed by DJ set | Free admission | As part of the anniversary programme ‘25 Years of Twin Cities Windhoek – Berlin’, AFRIKAMERA presents a comprehensive programme at Sinema Transtopia.

The AFRO FUTURE(S) FORUM forms part of the 16th edition of AFRIKAMERA, Current Cinema from Africa, which takes place from 14th to 19th of November across Berlin. The 2023 festival presents a selection of cinematic (future) visions from the metropolises of the African continent, ones that imagine a future beyond Western patterns of imagination.

The history of the Beta Israel or Falasha, an ethnic-religious group whose members originally came from Ethiopia and who have mostly emigrated to Israel since the late 1970s or were forced to emigrate, is largely unknown in this country.

Within the framework of the 15th edition, there were three public discourse formats on the topic of migration and diaspora: 11.11.22, A2 (small hall), Arsenal 20.30 Panel: NARRATIVES OF ESCAPE Africans have been second-class refugees throughout Europe during the large refugee movements since 2012. In Berlin, too, they had no access to state support and…

Cinema Spaces Network presents: SUPER SOLAR POWERED ACTIONS! Mechanische Arena im Foyer, Humboldt-Forum 10.11.-13.11., täglich 12h- 20h Eintritt frei In Kooperation mit AFRIKAMERA präsentiert die Initiative SUNSHINE CINEMA (Südafrika) als Teil des Cinema Spaces Network (https://cinemaspacesnetwork.net) im Festivalzeitraum zwei SUN BOXES in der Mechanischen Arena im großen Foyer, die mit einer Auswahl von Kurzfilmen bespielt…

Since 2007, artistic director Alex Moussa Sawadogo and his festival team have regularly enriched the German and Berlin film landscape with AFRIKAMERA – Current Cinema from Africa with outstanding productions from African countries and the diaspora, working closely with international film initiatives and festivals. In late 2020, the Ministry of Culture of Burkina Faso appointed…

CINEMA SPACES NETWORK | PRESENTATION | ONLINE IN COOPERATION WITH THE HUMBOLDT FORUM, BERLIN What is cinema in the 21st century? Finding answers to this question is long overdue and has taken on a new urgency in these times of pandemic. The Humboldt Forum, Berlin has invited five experienced initiatives from Africa, to discuss ideas…

Installation online17.11. – 22.11.2020 Cell phones on their way through three continentsDocumentary film by Daniel Kötter (D) Since 2013, curator and urbanist Jochen Becker and filmmaker and director Daniel Kötter have been researching the cultural effects of economic and political relations between China and the African continent. From birth in the mines in Kolwezi, Congolese,…

AFRIKAMERA WORKSHOPS (Berlin) Accompanying the film program are a number of workshops for the participating AFRIKAMERA directors and for interested professionals from all areas of the film industry. In addition to Alex Moussa Sawadogo (Artistic Direction AFRIKAMERA & Fund Manager of Jeune Creation Francophone), lecturers include Antje Glawe (World Cinema Fund), Christine Tröstrum (Berlinale Talents),…

In the course of the twelfth issue of AFRIKAMERA, a month-long AFRIKAMERA RESIDENCY will be offered for the second time – this year in the area of ​​scriptwriting, in cooperation with the Ouaga Film Lab (http://ouagafilmlab.net). Scholarship is the Togolese filmmaker Joël M’Maka Tchedre. His script for the feature film project I, RICH, STINGY AND…

In 2018, just after the festival, the AFRIKAMERA team will be a guest at the University of Djibouti. There, over several days AFRIKAMERA WORKSHOPS will take place on the topics of curation, festival management & organization and marketing in collaboration with the Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines (FLLSH). In the course of the…