Africa Day @home 2020

Pan-Africanism at Africa Day @home

We bring you the seventh Africa Day this year online and live home. Three films from and about Africa will be shown in the festival's online programme. And we will also continue the panel discussion as a digital format - this year with the theme: Stronger together - translating panafricanism into documentary filmmaking.

Three films from three different parts of the continent make different life realities visible:

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Algeria, France 2019, Hassen Ferhani, 100 min.

In the film by Hassen Ferhani we learn about the history of Malika in Algeria. In her small kiosk on the Trans-Sahara-Highway she meets truck drivers, adventurers, dreamers and seekers. More information here.

THE LETTER
Kenya 2019, Maia Lekow, 81 min.

The director Maia Lekow is taking us to Kenya. The second major project of the East African film fund DOCUBOX deals with the omnipresent phenomenon of witchcraft: between superstition, generation conflict and economic necessity. More information here.

DAYS OF CANNIBALISM
France, South Africa, Netherlands 2020, Teboho Edkins, 78 min.

Teboho Edkins takes us to the kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa. The example of a Chinese shop shows how capitalism affects the traditional society of a small village. More information here.

Live Online Discussion

We welcome the filmmakers THE LETTER (Maia Lekow & Christopher King), DAYS OF CANNIBALISM (Teboho Edkins) and Tiny Mungwe (Producerin at STEPS) to the live broadcast. The discussion will focus on the differences and similarities in the history of filmmaking, film aesthetics and production conditions.

The discussion will be held from 7 - 8.30 pm on Facebook Live in English. You can find the event here.

Following the discussion the director Maia Lekow (THE LETTER) will hold an exclusive Live-Session, with a song from the original soundtrack of her documentary.