FOFS Munich - Locarno Pro - Open Doors

In the organizer's words:

Films from Africa are still underrepresented at many film festivals. In this year's edition, the Locarno Film Festival focused on African short films for the first time in its Open Doors series. The five films can also be seen at the FOFS on Wednesday, November 19 at 3 pm.

18+ (no FSK)
OmeU
79 min. + extended film talk
Free choice of seats

THE LAST JOURNEY from Mauritania and Senegal tells the story of a missing young man and his family, who oscillate between hope and despair. In JANGU in Uganda, things become mystical: all the men in a town disappear under the spell of a witch. The poetic WHERE MY MEMORY BEGAN takes the death of a 400-year-old tree as an opportunity to look at the traditions and history of Sierra Leone. During the democratic revolution in Sudan in 2018-2019, many of the protesters were imprisoned. BOUGAINVILLEA shows six women who, locked in their cells, refuse to let their hope for a better future be taken away. In THE ENVOY OF GOD, 12-year-old Fatima is forced to blow herself up as a suicide bomber. In the last minutes of her life, past and present begin to blur.

-

Films from Africa continue to be underrepresented at most festivals. This year for the first time, the Locarno Film Festival focused on African short films in its Open Doors section. These five works will now be screened at FOFS on Wednesday, November 19, at 3 p.m.

THE LAST JOURNEY from Mauritania and Senegal tells the story of a young man who has disappeared while the members of his family don't know whether they should feel hope or despair. Things get mystical in the Ugandan film JANGU when a witch's spell causes all the men in town to disappear. In WHERE MY MEMORY BEGAN, the death of a 400-year-old tree provides the starting point for exploring the history and traditions of Sierra Leone. Lots of protesters were jailed during the democratic revolution in Sudan in 2018-2019. BOUGAINVILLEA introduces us to six women who from their jail cell refuse to give up hoping for a better future. In THE ENVOY OF GOD, 12-year-old Fatima is forced to become a suicide bomber; the line between the past and the present blurs during the final moments of her life.