WE, STUDENTS!
(Nous, Étudiants!)

Rafiki Fariala
Central African Republic, Congo, France, Saudi Arabia 2022 | 82 Min. | engl. subtitled

Fri, 12-May-23 07:30 PM

Sat, 20-May-23 10:30 AM
Q&A with*:
Rafiki Fariala
Nestor, Aaron and Ben­jamin are Rafiki’s clos­est friends. They are all study­ing eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bangui. But Rafiki wants to make films and starts doc­u­ment­ing their lives with … read more

TERRA MATER

Kantarama Gahigiri
Rwanda, Switzerland 2019 | 10 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 20-May-23 03:00 PM
Q&A with:
Cheryl Isheja (via zoom), Kantarama Gahigiri (via zoom), Pius Vögele (Uni Basel)
There she stands, con­fi­dent­ly, like a god­dess of tech­no­log­i­cal junk, sur­round­ed by end­less moun­tains of rub­bish, plas­tic, stench and rare earths. An angry appeal to the world to take respon­si­bil­i­ty … read more

NEPTUNE FROST

Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Rwanda, USA 2021 | 105 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 20-May-23 03:00 PM
Q&A with:
Maisha Maene, Pius Vögele (Uni Basel)
Already hailed as a future cult film, this lav­ish­ly dec­o­rat­ed musi­cal impress­es with its rich­ness of asso­ci­a­tions. In a fan­tas­tic vision of the future, many con­tem­po­rary issues appear bun­dled and … read more

LIFE OF IVANNA
(Жизнь Иванны Яптунэ / Zhizn Ivanny))

Renato Borrayo Serrano
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia 2021 | 79 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 13-May-23 01:30 PM

Sat, 20-May-23 07:15 PM
Q&A with:
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Ener­getic Ivanna lives with five chil­dren in a tiny sled car. She belongs to the nomadic Nenets, who breed rein­deer in the Arctic tundra. It is a rough but also … read more

ONE OF US NOW
(Achshav at ahat mishelanu)

Maya Steinberg
Germany, Israel 2022 | 30 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 20-May-23 09:45 PM
Q&A via zoom with:
Maya Steinberg
ONE OF US NOW is a film by and with Maya Stein­berg. Being her­self a sec­u­lar and fem­i­nist Israeli, Maya’s lifestyle devi­ates a lot from the one of her father, … read more

KIBONUMWE / METEORITE

Simon Rittmeier
Germany, Rwanda 2022 | 13 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 20-May-23 09:45 PM
Q&A with:
Simon Rittmeier

- “I can only describe it from what I’ve seen on tele­vi­sion. A huge pointy ele­ment that pierced the ground. And the earth around it… [makes ges­tures] fell every­where. Dis­turb­ing the peace, dis­turb­ing the status quo, the way things are.” 

KIBONUMWE / METEROITE by visual artist Simon Rittmeier is an unusu­al, exper­i­men­tal short film that explores the phe­nom­e­non of the mete­orite and raises epis­te­mo­log­i­cal ques­tions. How do we create our real­i­ty from the phe­nom­e­na of the world, where are the limits of the describ­able? 

DUENDE

Lucia Barrenetxea Lopez
Spain 2022 | 27 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sat, 20-May-23 09:45 PM
Q&A via Zoom with:
Lucia Barrenetxea Lopez
A red-clothed altar appears on the streets of Grana­da. Slowly, the feet of the people beneath it emerge; a group of women that seems like its own organ­ism. In the … read more