Fluid Frontiers
Powerful final part in the series of films in which Asili studies his relationship to the African diaspora. Will be screened both as part of Bright Future Short and PACT (Pan-African Cinema Today).
23'
USA
IFFR 2018
The seats in the theatre are still empty when the performer – the artist – enters the frame. She speaks about a colonial flashback. She is haunted by a series of historic photographs of or taken by the Austrian ethnographer Paul Schebesta in the 1930s, in the Belgian colony of the Congo.
Also in this combined programme
Her Name in My Mouth
A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
Mugabo
A woman returns to her fatherland Rwanda after 20 years. An impressive journey to a place that previously consisted of other people’s memories.
7'
Rwanda
IFFR 2018
Street 66
Documentary about Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and the Angell Town community in Brixton, London fighting for better housing conditions.
13'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
- Director
- Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Austria
- Production Year
- 2017
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 13'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
- Sales
- sixpackfilm
- Cinematography
- Sunanda Mesquita
- Editor
- Sunanda Mesquita, Nick Prokesch
- Sound Design
- Nick Prokesch
- Cast
- Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Programme
Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT)
Multifaceted contemporary African and African-diaspora cinema with special focus on the history of the Pan-African movement as captured in film.
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Two sisters kidnapped from their home and sold into slavery attempt to retake their freedom.
19'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
August 28th: A Day in the Life of a People
Ava DuVernay's short film looks at six significant events in African-American history that all occurred on that date in different years.
22'
USA
IFFR 2018
Black Barbie
A young black woman bleaches her skin to conform to societal pressure.
4'
Ghana
IFFR 2018