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The Future is Africa: African Film Festival for Children and Youth
Exhibition
The Future is Africa: African Film Festival for Children and Youth
27 Oct 2021 – 4 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 30 Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße
- Berlin
Berlin - 10178
- Germany
THE FUTURE IS AFRICA is a children’s and youth film festival featuring contributions from Africa and the African diaspora.
About
British curator June Givanni has put together a program of nearly 30 short and feature-length films that tell their stories mostly from the perspective of children and young people.
Opening night is Wednesday, October 27th at 6 p.m. with a short film program for children (free tickets, register here) and at 8 p.m. with the German premiere of the drama Conviction: The Case of Stephen Lawrence (2021) by the award-winning British TV and film director Alrick Riley (Bridgerton '). Free entry, please pre-register for the 8pm premiere HERE.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the festival curator mit June Givanni & SPECIAL GUEST Neville Lawrence.
+ Food & Drinks will be available from a foodtruck
Decolonizing the Western view of Africa has historically been the main task of African cinema as one of the most important artistic media. Thus, for many years, films for children and young people have been increasingly produced, mainly written and produced by an equally young generation of filmmakers who want to show, make aware and thus change the everyday reality of those.
The films address themes of identity, diaspora, coming of age and heroism through stylistic devices such as documentary, portrait, magical realism and Afrofuturism. The selection includes classics of African cinema such as Gaston Kaboré’s Wend Kuuni (1992) as well as recent films such as Larry Achiampong’s Reliquary 2 (2020) and Adeyemi Michael’s futuristic short The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be (2021).
