Signals - Where Is Africa

Overzicht van films

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  Les techniciens nos cousins

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  Moussa Touré | 73' | Senegal | None

  Moussa Toure approaches the subject of mosquitoes and malaria with humour and derision to sting our complacency.
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  La telecommande

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  Les Boulistes | 6' | Congo-Brazzaville | International premiere

  The setbacks of a young man pretending to be an MP’s nephew. Last part of a sitcom in twelve episodes of six minutes each that…
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  Teug: Chaudronnerie d’Art

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  Samba Félix N’diaye | 17' | Senegal | None

  Our heroes take broken engines and dismantle them, recovering the aluminium and reshaping it into a variety of cooking utensils.
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  Thank You Mama

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  Omelga Mthiyane | 15' | South Africa | World premiere

  Film maker Omelga Mthiyane follows her mother across a large and renowned market in Durban, South Africa. The market has to go in order to…
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  Les touristes

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  Mohamed Konaté | 3' | Mali | European premiere

  Konate’s touristes are highly activated objects, little coloured balls which go madly rolling around town.
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  Un transport en commun

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  Dyana Gaye | 48' | France | None

  In this musical, seven characters on board a bus each have their own inner drama and style of music with which to disrupt mundane reality.
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  tranzania. living. room.

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  Uli M. Schüppel | 75' | Germany | World premiere

  A German film maker goes looking in Tanzania for the dreams from his childhood. He crosses the lively city of Dar es Salaam and experiences…
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  Le troisième jour

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  Edouard Sailly | 15' | Chad | None

  The African pioneer Edouard Sailly created a distinctive poetic cinema. Here, he ponders the state of mind of a mourning fisherman.
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  The Unluckiest

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  Justine Waddell | 9' | South Africa | World premiere

  Not having money for a plot, two sons resolve to bury their father at the edge of the cemetery.
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  Unreal Forest

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  Jakrawal Nilthamrong | 70' | Thailand | World premiere

  A Thai film maker asked an African film maker to make a short drama film. The process was documented and included in the film. A…
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  De Voortrekkers

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  Harold M. Shaw | 54' | USA | None

  This 1916 epic film tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek, reconstructing the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred Afrikaners defeated…
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  Walking Is Dancing

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  Deborah Stratman | 40' | Malawi | World premiere

  Stratman, an artist with a special interest in sound and radio, looks round in the small and underdeveloped Malawi, a country few people know much…