2023
During the Autumn semester, we have linked the series with the thematic weeks of the “Regional Ethnography: Africa” course (SOSANT 2120). Therefore, films have been particularly selected to tell African stories, especially by African filmmakers.
This is not a burial. It's a resurrection
Time and place: Nov. 7, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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
Time and place: Oct. 31, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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
Time and place: Oct. 24, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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.
Survivors
Time and place: Oct. 17, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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
Time and place: Oct. 10, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
Elephant's Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo.
Atlantique
Time and place: Sep. 26, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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.
The Body Won't Close
Time and place: Sep. 19, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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
Time and place: Sep. 12, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
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'.
Rafiki
Time and place: Sep. 5, 2023, 16:15, Aud.3, Eilert Sundts hus
Rafiki (Swahili for ‘friend’) is a Kenyan drama, made for popular audiences by filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu.