At the Movies with Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Fiston Mwanza Mujila is Poet in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the 26/27 season and a member of the Afrofuturist music theater group Sunville at the Tischlerei. He has chosen *Neptune Frost* as his film for the *Im Kino* series.

Synopsis:

In the hills of Burundi, a group of displaced coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist hacker collective. From their camp in a surreal-seeming electronic waste dump, they attempt to overthrow the authoritarian regime that exploits the region’s natural resources—and its people. When an intersex runaway and a fugitive coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection triggers disruptions in the overarching divine circuitry.

With “Unlimited,” opera comes to the cinema: In one of the auditoriums at delphi Lux, artists from this opera season will showcase their secret favorite films, guilty pleasures, or cinematic sources of inspiration in the context of the opera productions—and introduce them in person. All in keeping with the season’s motto, “Make Love…”