THE CAMP IS RAZED TO THE GROUND. FELICIEN FILMS THE REMAINS
Dir.: Jean Frederic de Hasque
2018 | 17 min
Belgium
Fillming location: Benin
Blue and pixelated images, trees, the road. It shows poles that held the electrical wires that still exist in some places. It shows the main alley, the only part that is not eaten by the vegetation.
This filmed essay is the continuation of a documentary film devoted to the Togolese refugee camp of Agamé in 2010, "The Camp". In the years that followed director had the opportunity to see some of them again, and to follow the evolution of the camp to learn its destruction. It was filmed by one of the characters in the movie "The Camp" called Félicien. It is in Cotonou, that one day he presents to Hasque the images of the destroyed camp which he filmed with his cellular phone.
In French with Latvian and English subtitles.
ATALI’S GIFT
Dir.: Knut Christian Myhre
2017 | 43 min
Norway
Filming location: United Republic of Tanzania
Atali has recently moved back to his homestead in Rombo District on the eastern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. For nearly twenty years, he has pursued university studies and engaged in various business ventures, but these have brought him few material rewards. Atali is determined to turn his life around and is convinced he needs for this purpose to settle some longstanding matters pertaining to his long-deceased father and father’s father. His path to a better future goes through the past and requires an intervention in the present. A visit from the anthropologist Knut Christian Myhre, who has long lived in Atali’s house while conducting research in the area, provides Atali with the impetus to proceed with his plans. As Atali prepares for his big event, he continues to tend his garden and plan further business schemes, and interacts with his elderly mother and his older brother’s wife, who live in the neighbouring house. Meanwhile, the anthropologist becomes ever more entangled in Atali’s plans and proceedings.
In English and Swahili with subtitles in English and Latvian.
After the screening, the director will be present for a Q&A.
