May 14: OTITI (2022) by Ema Edosio-Deelen
A seamstress with commitment issues faces strong opposition from her half-brothers when she decides to take care of the ailing father who had abandoned her as a child.
Tag: arthouse cinema
March 26: SOULA by Salah Issaad | #WomensHistoryMonth
Soula, a young single mother rejected by her family in the name of honor, trying to survive, finds herself caught up in a spiral of violence.
November 13: RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR by Milorad Krstić | Nigerian Premiere | #ArtCinemaDay
Three expert thieves embark on a series of art thefts as therapy for their psychiatrist’s nightmares. A detective hopes to curtail their dreams.
May 8: TRADITION TODAY (Short Film Programme)
Through a selection of four short films, we explore traditional religion and cultures in modern times. We encounter young people who are sustaining or rediscovering their traditional religious heritage regardless of stigma and the pressures of modernisation.
April 10: THEIR ALGERIA by Lina Soualem | Nigerian Premiere
The longstanding journey of exile of Aïcha and Mabrouk: a couple of Algerian immigrants living in a
medieval French town since sixty years, whose lives were a succession of separations and silences.
December 10: FOR MARIA EBUN PATAKI (Damilola Orimogunje; 2020)
After a complicated childbirth, Derin finds herself at odds with life and loved ones, including her newborn Maria.
November 13: TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA (Icíar Bollaín, 2010) | #ArtCinemaDay
A film crew arrives in Cochabamba with the assurance of period verisimilitude and the promise of cheap extras. But reality belies expectation.
September 12: NIGHT OF THE KINGS (Philippe Lacôte; 2020)
To retain his power, an aging and sick Blackbeard returns to a ritual that involves forcing a prisoner to tell stories all night long…
February 14: TROUBLE SLEEP (dir. Alain Kassanda; 2019) | Physical Screening
TROUBLE SLEEP immerses us in the rich urban landscape of a contemporary African city, saturated with sounds and movements, struggling with autophagous impulses, where Men dream of another fate, which is less bitter, by drinking in the evening, before plunging back the next day into the incessant daily struggle of all against all.
December 13: LE HAVRE (by Aki Kaurismäki; 2011)
When an underage illegal migrant arrives at the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on him and welcomes him into his home.