Film Programme - Cinema Spaces Network - KIZOBAZOBA!*
Since summer 2020, the Humboldt Forum has been organizing a virtual think tank together with five African cinema initiatives: the Cinema Spaces Network (CSN). In March 2022, the members will come together to present themselves, their work, initial projects and their visions to the Berlin audience. From 2-7 March, everything will revolve around the question of what cinema can, could and would like to be in 2022 and beyond - for example in Kinshasa, in Khartoum, in the South African Eastern Cape, in the Kenyan pop-up cinema at Lake Elementaita or in Burkina Faso's cultural metropolis Bobo-Dioulasso.
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Filmstill Baamum Nafi (Navi's Father)
The Humboldt Forum facilitates a platform to Cinema Spaces Network for a transcultural exchange of knowledge and culturual practices.
Every evening at 19.00h, the members present films in Hall 2 with a special connection to the cinema work in their region. The opening film on March 2nd will be BAAMUM NAFI (NAFI'S FATHER) by Mamadou Dia - Senegal's Oscar candidate in the competition for the Best International Film 2021.
Each evening at 17.30h the CSN members invite you to Cine Lectures. These interactive lectures will focus on different concepts of how cinemas can become new cultural and social centers - in urban as well as in rural areas. During the day, workshops and seminars will be held at the Humboldt Forum and throughout Berlin - meetings with professionals and interested parties from various film industries. Additional info: cinemaspacesnetwork.net
*KIZOBAZOBA! is a lingala word and means translated : "Make the best of it!". It also denotes a way of life, an aesthetic principle and ennobles the art of improvisation. The CSN has borrowed this beautiful word from the Congolese - as the title of our event and as the name of a new pan-African distribution project that the CSN is launching in cooperation with the Tunis-based HAKKA film distributor.
BAAMUM NAFI (NAFI’S FATHER) - Mamadou Dia, Senegal 2019
Nafi is a young woman, bright, curious - and in love with her uncle's son. Her love is reciprocated, they want to get married. But a massive family dispute stands in the way.
Nafi's father is the acting Iman and a follower of moderate Islam. His older brother pacts with Islamic fundamentalists and wants to bring the village under his control through the marriage... A modern Senegalese family drama with strong images, modern characters and a sensitive look at everyday realities.
- Feature Film / Duration 109 min.
- Fulfulde
- English subtitles, German livetranslation
- recommended for ages 14 and up
- 5,00 EUR / 2,50 EUR.
