This year, the cinema month of October is all about Africa. The Film Museum honors the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène with a retrospective; the Golden Bear winner of the Berlinale 2024 will be shown in the regular cinema program at the end of the month: Mati Diop’s documentary “Dahomey” is about art treasures that were once stolen by colonial troops and brought back to what is now Benin became. And then there are the African Film Days, which have put together a program far away from widespread African clichés. “Dahomey” is also showing there, as a preview shortly before its theatrical release.
A total of six films will be shown over three days, from countries such as Tunisia, Somalia, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film days will open with the Sudanese drama “Goodbye Julia,” which premiered at the Cannes Festival in 2023 and tells a story of two women against the backdrop of the imminent division of the country. A film discussion via Zoom is planned for the evening of October 12th: After the screening of his autobiographical feature film debut “Augure/Omen” (in which a man returns to his home village after a long absence), the Congolese-Belgian director Baloji wants to answer the audience’s questions .
African Film DaysFriday 11th to Sunday 13th October, Gasteig HP8, Hans-Preißinger-Straße 8