AfriKaleidoskop

Film screening

25.01.2024 - 26.01.2024

In January 2024, the Cluster’s event series “AfriKaleidoskop” will continue. Following the Cinema Africa 2024 film festival, further African films will be shown as part of AfriKaleidoskop. On January 25 and 26, three films will be screened at the Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb in Bayreuth with each presentation to be followed by an audience discussion.
AfriKaleidoskop is an event series of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in which films with an African context are shown at irregular intervals.

More information: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Public-outreach/AfriKaleidoskop/index.html

The Planter’s Plantation (Cameroon 2022)
Director: Eystein Young Dingha
120 min; Country of production: Cameroon;
Languages: Pidgin English and English Subtitle: Engl.
Awards: Ecran D’or (first for a Cameroonian movie in 26 years) Ecrans Noirs Festival 2022

In a West African plantation in the 1960s, a young, determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father’s legacy, a colonial plantation, amidst disagreements, betrayal, and secrets. A musical comedy drama, an allegory of Neo-colonization.

Watch the trailer here

Thursday, 25.01.2024 - 8 pm
Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb, Bayreuth

Sadrack (Cameroon 2022)
Director: Narcisse Wandji
90 min; Countries of Production: Cameroon;
Languages: French; Subtitles: Engl.
Awards: Kama d’or au Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cotonou ‘ReCiCo’ 2023

Bayo, aged 70, is suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer’s. This is causing tension with his son Franck, who is unaware of the disease. Franck hires Rachel, a young student looking for work, to look after his father. As Rachel and Bayo develop a special relationship, they discover the reality of the disease. This discovery brings father, son and Rachel closer together, as Rachel struggles with her own battle. A moving story of acceptance, friendship and resilience.

Friday, 26.01.2024 - 6 pm
Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb, Bayreuth

Le Sermon des prophètes (Burkina Faso, 2023).
Director: Seydou Boundaoné
87 min; Country of Production: Burkina Faso; Languages: French, Subtitles: Engl/Fr.

Abdou Djamal, a 50-year-old leader of an armed group, passes himself off as a gold digger and a devout Muslim. He lives confined to his home in a district of Ouagadougou, a small town on the outskirts of the capital. He only goes out to attend the mosque and a few social ceremonies. He is a strategist and a master manipulator.

Friday, 26.01.2024 - 8 pm
Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb, Bayreuth

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