Urban Africa
Combined programme
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IFFR 2015
People still think Africans live in empty countries, on the savannah. However, soon all Africans will live in megalopolises, as can be seen here. Not science fiction.
In this combined programme
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Flies.
An older man lives alone in a deserted apartment complex. He unintentionally witnesses a murder after which the killers end his loneliness. Character -
Square Stories Too
Basically three films rolled into one. Various, jump-cut images depict life and work on Addis Ababa’s central square. A contemporary triptych. -
Epicura
Moody, night-time walks that don’t always seem to have a purpose. In Brazzaville there is always something up. Melancholy wanderers. -
The Bridge
Filmmaker looks out of his window onto the tough life outside because it’s not any old bridge he lives beside and not any old South… -
Excuse Me, While I Disappear
A Chinese city in Africa. Innumerable square metres in exchange for oil. An employee is followed around the scarcely inhabited city. Until he disappea