Mugabo is an experimental short film about a young girl’s return to the idealised homeland, a journey to a place full of borrowed memories. Director Amelia Umuhire, a Rwandese filmmaker living in Germany, also directed and produced the fictional web series Polyglot about the lives of young black artists in Europe.
Also in this combined programme
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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… -
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. -
Street 66
Documentary about Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and the Angell Town community in Brixton, London fighting for better housing conditions. -
Unearthing. In Conversation
In an empty theatre, artist Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński ‘dissects’ a series of photographs Austrian ethnographer Paul Schebesta took in t -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
An alphabet of violence and freedom featuring rhythmic images provides a strong vocabulary for critiquing representations of black bodies.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Rwanda
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- File
