Africa Alive

This year, the Africa Alive Festival will again take place in September. In the actual festival month of February, a small selection of films will be shown at the DFF cinema and at Filmforum Höchst.

Two documentaries in the program deal with Africa’s colonial history. UN LIEU NOMMÉ WAHALA takes the annual commemoration of the end of World War I in Wahala, Togo, as an opportunity to recall German colonial history. The armistice in 1918 initiated the abandonment of the colony of German Togoland.

Museums around the world house extensive collections of African art. On the art market, they have become objects of speculation. Starting from the debate about the repatriation of art objects, the film VERKAUFTE GÖTTER. GETAUSCHT – GERAUBT – GERETTET searches for traces among dealers in West Africa and collectors in Europe, at auctions and in museums.

For decades, Mrs. Coda in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso has been taking care of children whose mothers earn money on the streets at night. In GARDERIE NOCTURNE, Moumouni Sanou gives a deep insight into the daily life of Mrs. Coda and two mothers.

SŒURS is about three French-Algerian sisters who go in search of their missing brother in Algeria.

Accompanying the film portrait DER AUSSERIRDISCHE IST GELANDET. VOM AFRIKANISCHEN MINISTER ZUM GRÜNEN STADTVERORDNETEN by Malte Rauch, the book Jean Claude Diallo. Ein Frankfurter aus Afrika is presented, which provides insights into the personality of the former head of integration of the city of Frankfurt, into his life as a family man, friend and political companion. At the same time, the book is a journey through time into the history of the Federal Republic of Germany and Guinea in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the restored classic LAAFI – TOUT VA BIEN, S. Pierre Yameogo tells the story of Joe, who tries by all means to get a place at university in France and has to defy bureaucracy, corruption and indifference.

Further information at africa-alive-festival.de