KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS

In the organizer's words:

AFRIKAMERA: KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS

Dani Kouyaté I Burkina Faso 2025 I OmeU I 113 min

SA 15 NOV I 18:30 I CITY KINO WEDDING

SO 16 NOV I 18:00 I BROTFABRIKKINO

In the presence of the director.

Set in the imaginary African kingdom of Ganzurgu, KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth . Shot in black and white and narrated in Mooré, Dani Kouyaté realizes the timeless universal story about power and political intrigue in a new guise.

After a failed coup d'état against the crown, King Pazouknaam appoints his cousin Katanga as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Based on the prophecy of a seer and driven by his ambitious wife, Katanga assassinates the king and seizes power. From then on, he will use any means necessary to maintain his rule...

Although it is a fairly faithful adaptation of Macbeth, Kouyaté's film offers a completely new take on the classic story - by deliberately treating it as a fairy tale with references to the present day in a decidedly African context and radically changing the ending.

KATANGA, LA DANSE DES SCORPIONS was the first Burkinabe entry in 28 years to be awarded the main prize Yennenga Golden Stallion at FESPACO 2025 .

DANI KOUYATÉ, born in 1961 in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), began his film career as a director in 1989 with the short film BILAKORO. In 1992, he founded the film production company "Sahelis Productions". For his first feature film KEÏTA! L'HÉRITAGE DU GRIOT (1995), he received the prize for the best debut film at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou (FESPACO) and was awarded the Junior Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Dani Kouyaté teaches at Uppsala University in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology and at Wiks Folkhögskola in Uppsala in the Department of Film and Theater.

More information: AFRIKAMERA Film Festival.

Price information:

City Kino Wedding: Tickets: €9, concessions: €6 plus booking fee Brotfabrikkino: Tickets: €9, concessions: €7 plus booking fee