TIMPI TAMPA
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20-year-old Khalilou lives alone with his mother in Dakar. She has cancer. For years, she has used many whitening creams to look like the women on the billboards, poisoning herself in the process. To do her justice, Khalilou decides to disguise himself as the woman “Leila” and take part in a university beauty contest. In this way, he wants to challenge the broken system from within. This social fairy tale dismantles the ideal of beauty shaped in the colonial era and at the same time celebrates sisterhood, identity and resilience. TIMPI TAMPA has its German premiere at the AFFK.
German premier
Cooperation: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
TIMPI TAMPA Direction: Adama Bineta Sow, DCP, OmeU, 80 min
Guest
Adama Bineta Sow holds an MBA in project management and is fascinated by cinema. In 2015, she directed her first short film AVEUGLÉ PAR UNE AVEUGLE, which was part of the official selection of the Espace Junior du FESPACO 2017. In 2019, she made her second short film À NOUS LA TABASKI, which was screened and awarded at various festivals: It won the prize for best short film at the Fontenay-le-Fleury Women's Film Festival and a special mention from the jury at the NouakShort Film Festival. At FESPACO 2025, she presented her feature film debut TIMPA TAMPA and received an honorable mention in the “Perspectives” section and is one of a number of Afro-feminist filmmakers who are asking a fundamental question: Who has the right to tell our stories?