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Berlin Premiere: „Capitaine Thomas Sankara“ with Director Christophe Cupelin in Attendance, on Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 5 pm in Hackesche Höfe Kino
On the occasion of the 26th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s assassination AfricAvenir invites you to the Berlin Premiere of the new and highly praised documentary “Capitaine Thomas Sankara” in presence of Christophe Cupelin at the Hackesche Höfe Kino on Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 5 pm. The portrait, composed exclusively of archival footage, of Thomas…
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Namibian Film Premier of Black Girl by director Ousmane Sembene on Wednesday, 09 October 2013, 18h30 at FNCC
On Wednesday, 09 October 2013, 18h30, AfricAvenir and the FNCC invite to the screening of La Noire de …. / Black Girl, by director Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1966, 65 min. n"Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images."– Med HondonSynopsis:With La noire de… (Black Girl), a first and prize-winning…
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Kwame Opoku: Did Germans Never Hear Directly or Indirectly Nigeria’s Demand for Return of Looted Artefacts?
Cultural commentator Kwame Opoku discusses in this text the partly estonishing answers given by the Berlin Senat to parliamentary question (Kleine Anfrage) from the German Green Party in relation to the construction of the Humboldt-Forum and planned transferring of the ethnological objects, including the looted/stolen ones, from the Ethnologisches Museum, Dahlem, to the centre of…
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Namibian Film Premiere: „Andalusia, My Love!” by Mohamed Nadif, Saturday, 28 September 2013, 19h00 at Goethe-Centre
On Saturday, 28 September 2013 at 7 pm, AfricAvenir presents the Namibian Premiere film "Andalusia, My Love!” (2012, Morocco, 86 min, Awman Productions) by Mohamed Nadif. Saïd and Amine are two students from Casablanca dreaming of Europe. They end up in a small village in the North of Morocco. With the help of the schoolteacher, they…
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World Premiere: Tim Hübschle’s “Making Of Dead River” & Selection of Short Films, Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 18h30, FNCC
In the framework of its bi-monthly screening series of Namibian films, AfricAvenir and the FNCC present an evening of Tim Huebschle short films on Wednesday, 11. September 2013, 18h30 including the World Premiere of "Making Of Dead River", at the FNCC, Robert Mugabe Ave, Windhoek, Entrance 20,- Nam$. 1.) Rider Without a Horse – 12…
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Déclaration solennelle du Prince Kum’aNdumbe III sur les débuts de la résistance des peuples camerounais à l’occupation coloniale, 28 août 1884 – 28 août 2013, au mausolée de Lock Priso (Kum’a Mbape)
Hickory Town/Bonabéri, 28 août 2013. "Pull that flag down. No man buy we. They want to give us plenty dash, we tell them no. Leave us free and not make us plenty trouble." La résistance anticoloniale au Cameroun, dit et écrit Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III, n’a pas commencé avec Rudolf Duala Manga Bell en 1914,…
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Namibian film premiere of “The Miscreants” by Mohcine Besri, Saturday, 31 August 2013, 19h00 at Goethe-Centre Windhoek
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 19h00, AfricAvenir Windhoek and the Goethe-Centre Windhoek present the Namibian film premiere of “The Miscreants” by Mohcine Besri, Morocco/Switzerland 2012, 88 min.nSynopsis:On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show. When the kidnappers arrive…
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Videoclips: Aminata Traoré und Many Camara zur Situation in Mali
Aminata Traoré (Menschenrechtsaktivistin) und Many Camara (Soziologieprofessor an der Universität in Bamako) berichten in Videoclips, mit deutschen Untertiteln, zur aktuellen Situation in Mali. Im April 2013 waren beide zu Gast in Berlin auf mehreren Veranstaltungen und Fachgesprächen. Sie berichteten über die Lage in Mali nach der Militärintervention und vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen, die am 28. Juli…
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„Noch immer aufrecht“ – Zum 30. Jahrestag der Revolution in Burkina Faso
AfricAvenir International hat sich seit 2012 schwerpunktmäßig mit Thomas Sankara, Präsident des westafrikanischen Staates Burkina Faso von 1983 bis 1987, auseinander gesetzt. Am 4. August 2013 jährt sich die Revolution, die unter Sankara die internationale Gemeinschaft in Staunen versetzt hat, zum 30. Mal. AfricAvenir möchte dieses Jubiläum zum Anlass nehmen, über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zu…
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AfricAvenir Windhoek: Week of Classic Egyptian Films in Windhoek, 12 – 17 August 2013
Egypt was the first country in Africa and the Middle East to establish a film-industry. Film screenings took place as early as 1896 when the works by the Lumière Brothers were presented in Alexandria and Cairo. Still under foreign rule, Egypt was the only colony in which the production of news-reels and short-films by the local…