ALL THAT BREATHES
India 2022 | 91 Min. | engl. subtitled
Sat, 13-May-23 07:30 PM
Thu, 18-May-23 10:00 PM
Ben Bernhard, Shaunak Sen
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 his camera. After lectures, they hang out in front of the university or in their student accommodation and exchange ideas: about the future of their Central African Republic homeland, but also about things that immediately preoccupy them in their lives, such as dating and work. They ask themselves how things are supposed to continue. As young people with access to education, they see themselves as the ones who will shape the country in the coming decades. But how can you manage to reshape a system when so much of your energy goes into your own needs and survival? In his feature-length debut, director Rafiki Fariala takes us into the circle of his friends, providing an immediate, poetic and at the same time undisguised look at the reality of millennials in Bangui. (Berlinale)
Rafiki Fariala, born in 1997 in Uvira, Congo, grew up in the Central African Republic. In 2013 he published the piece WHY WAR, which made him known as a musician. In 2017, he participated in the documentary workshop of Ateliers Varan in Bangui and realized his first short film Mbi na mo (You and Me) in this framework.
*12.05. on-site, 20.05. via Zoom