Cinema SAI

Forty years ago Norway was closely following the drama surrounding the Alta controversy. For Ester the protests become something more than a fight against the construction of a dam.

This short film follows two fishermen from the Greek village Skala Sikamineas, on the island of Lesvos, who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in saving people crossing the waters from Turkey to Greece

The Mission is a 1986 British period drama film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th-century South America.

Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a hybrid documentary that moves between the natural migration and the chaotic and tragic migration of the humans, which is in constant metamorphoses by the unseen decision-making structures

Alive and wild, an ethnographic film from Cape Town and its surroundings, where B-boys, biologists, bushmen and ghosts share the world of life.

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.

Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace.

With a poet’s eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress

Neptune Frost is a 2021 science fiction romantic musical film co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, and starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo and Kaya Free.

The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia's past.

Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, Survivors presents an intimate portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turmoil that lies in its wake.

Elephant's Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo.

Atlantique is a 2019 internationally co-produced supernatural romantic drama film directed by Mati Diop, in her feature directorial debut. The film is centered around a young woman, Ada, and her partner, Souleiman, struggling in the face of employment, class, migration, crime, family struggles, and ghosts.

Legend has it that the capoeira player Besouro Mangangá summoned Bahia’s full magical power to seal his body from harm. Neither bullet nor knife could pierce his skin anymore.

Congo Calling is a patient, empathetic but clear-sighted if not disillusioned film about three people of European and American origin, who work in Eastern Congo in the present. The main character is a young US American social science PhD student, which makes the film particularly relevant for us.  The film invites us to discuss the concept of 'Africa', and critically engage with European (and US American, and other privileged) modes of imagining and acting in 'Africa'.