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When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
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Switzerland
IFFR 2021
The Wodaabe are a nomadic subgroup of the Fulbe, one of West Africa’s most populous ethnicities. Numbering now about 100,000 people, they’re still roaming the vast spheres between Nigeria and the Central African Republic, from Chad southwards to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, herding cattle and trading goods. By now, the Wodaabe are probably the most widely filmed culture of the sub-Saharan area due to some of their rituals, which stress beauty, grace and performance skills.
In 1953, when Swiss documentarist-ethnographer Henry Brandt went to what was then French West Africa, in the territory of independent Niger now, he became the first to make moving images of the Wodaabe’s day-to-day life as well as the Gerewol, an annual courtship competition particular to this region. For Brandt, it meant making the world greater, furthering our knowledge. 2021 marks his centennial, for which this milestone was digitally restored. Screens together with La Suisse s’interroge.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeWhen Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
As Japanese monsters like Godzilla have so often saved the world, could they now help us fight Covid-19? Find out here!
88'
Japan
IFFR 2021
Can we find a different feminism in the images of state-sponsored Soviet documentaries about women and their role in socialism? Yes.
20'
Russia
IFFR 2021