PANEL: RESTITUTION IN FILM
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A topic often times overlooked or ignored. There are countless films held in European and American film archives, in Museums and Universities. Here we are not only referring to films produced during the Colonial era for propaganda, but also films by African filmmakers in recent times. Why do many African filmmakers don't hold the right to their films? How many African films are actually in Western Archives? Why don't we know the exact numbers? Why are films, film reels neglected on the continent? What can and should we do as film practitioners?
Language: English
Cooperation: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Kiosk Arts Exchange e. V. & DW Akademie
Guests
She has worked as a freelance curator for the Cambridge African Film Festival and the Festival do Rio. She was co-director and curator of the African film festival UHURU in Rio de Janeiro and programmer for Film Africa in London. She has been a member of the Berlinale Selection Committee since 2023 and is curator of the AFFK.
In the 1950s, at the Franciscan primary school for "indigenous" pupils, Sana Na N'Hada met teachers active in the National Liberation Movement. In the 1960s, he joined the guerrillas. Amílcar Cabral sent him in 1967 to Cuba to study film at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos. On his return to Guinea-Bissau, he filmed the war of independence and set up an archive with other filmmakers. In 1978, Na N'Hada became the first director of the National Film Institute, which he ran until 1989. His films deal with the memory of the fight for independence and also take a critical look at independence and the destruction of traditional societies in Guinea-Bissau.
Henda Ducados, daughter of filmmaker Sarah Maldoror from Guadeloupe and Angolan writer, poet and fighter against Portuguese colonial rule, Mário de Andrade, spent her childhood with her sister Annouchka de Andrade between Morocco, Algeria and France. She is a Franco-Angolan economist and sociologist who currently works between Lisbon and Angola. Together with her sister, she founded the "Association of Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade" in 2020, with the aim of contributing to the development, preservation and promotion of the political and cultural heritage of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade, two free thinkers who sought emancipation through culture.