program description

This program deals with different forms of human movements that are relevant to the time in the set African country. The films use the camera as a tool to unearth stolen objects from Africa, document the women that fought vehemently for women's rights, reconstruct historic events, as well as to capture memories of colonization and the subsequent consequences of neo-colonial struggles that force many young people to risk their lives to cross the Sahara desert to get to Europe.

about the curator

Jacqueline Nsiah is part of the Berlinale selection committee and co-curator of the Africa Film Festival Cologne. Some of her past roles include the Cambridge African Film Festival and the Festival do Rio. She was co-director and curator of the African film festival UHURU in Rio de Janeiro, and a programmer for Film Africa in London. Jacqueline Nsiah was the project manager for a film platform at the Goethe Institut and was member of the selection committee at Berlinale Forum for the past four editions and co-curated the special programme “Fiktionsbescheinigung”. She received her M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin and a B.A. in African Studies and Politics from SOAS University in London.