IN FOCUS: HAUNTINGS
This film program traces the afterlives of colonialism, the weight of memory, and the ongoing struggles over representation, history, and belonging. From Ghana to Haiti, from the Netherlands to Tanzania, these films speak to the haunted present – a present where archives are contested, ancestors are misremembered or silenced, and identities are shaped through resistance. Together, these works reveal not only what was stolen or lost, but also what endures – and what must be reclaimed.
A program curated by Jacqueline Nsiah
IN FOCUS: HAUNTINGS – SHORT FILM PROGRAM
FRIDAY, 09.05. | 5 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
The short film program opens with You Hide Me, Nii Kwate Owoo’s urgent intervention into colonial looting and museum politics andmoves into Festus Toll’s poetic work The Story of Ne Kuko, where past and present collide in a search for belonging. Additionally, in Dreams Like Paper Boats, Samuel Suffren evokes the fragility of hope amidst Haiti’s social turbulence.
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IN FOCUS: HAUNTINGS – FEATURE FILMS
DAS LEERE GRAB – THE EMPTY GRAVE
SATURDAY, 10.05. | 5 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
AU CIMETIÈRE DE LA PELLICULE – THE CEMETERY OF CINEMA
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 9:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
The feature-length works continue this thread: The Empty Grave examines the scars of Germany’s colonial crimes in Tanzania and the refusal to forget. Au Cimetière de la Pellicule uncovers a missing cinematic past in Guinea, making the act of filmmaking itself a form of resurrection.
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