10 views on migration: watch the films
As part of the Migration week programme of the Ramadan at Rosa #At_home event, RLS North Africa announces the online release of the films produced in the framework of the RLS Africa Department project “10 views on migration”.
7 out of the 10 films are available online from the 13th to the 20 of May (links below)
About the project
10 views on Migration is a contribution to a greater and balanced representation of migrants and refugees in the public sphere in the African countries and beyond. The project aims to create an alternative point of view on migration and refugees, beyond the stereotypes. It hence aims to give a “southern narrative” of the refugee crisis as its perception is often dominated by countries on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. Read more
Films
Searching for Ghazala
Director: Bassam Murtada (Egypt)
Link: https://vimeo.com/359596880/a9facd5ce9
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Language: Arabic/ Subtitles: English
Synopsis: A director is looking for an actor to plays the main character in his feature film. During auditions of a number of African refugees in Egypt, he meets Briku, a Sudanese who dreams of being a professional football player, acting, and immigrating. Through auditions, we meet many different faces, and we very quickly get to know their views on life and the dreams they have away from home.
Across the Horn
Directror: Oualid Khelifi (Algeria)
Link: https://vimeo.com/371658532/e765d0bb67
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Language: French, Arabic / Subtitles: English
Synopsis: On ancient commercial trails linking East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, millions of Ethiopians have traveled through barren mountains, salt lakes and arid deserts since the migratory route opened up in the 1990s. Through emblematic characters, Across the Horn traces the perilous paths migrants take as they walk undocumented from Ethiopia into Djibouti, and across this small, loosely populated nation on the very Horn of Africa.
My new European life
Director: Abu Bakar Sidibé (Mali)
Link: https://cloud.rosalux.de/s/kwoNrxmyT25EHJJ
Password: w25ipGxB
Language: French/ Subtitles: English
Synopsis: When Abou from Mali finally made it to Europe, it felt like a new life had started for him- a life with a future. But while his film about his voyage to Europe is shown all over the world, he lives isolated in a German refugee home. An essayistic reflection about Europe’s invisible borders and filmmaking as an act of self-empowerment.
Companions of the Cave
Director: Fakhri El Ghezal (Tunisia)
Link: https://cloud.rosalux.de/s/nWtd64EJ9CKkd5G
Password: w4HZz3Pi
Language: Arabic/ Subtitles: English
Synopsis: Shot in black and white on super 8mm film, the movie is a sort of open letter from the director to the rap artist’s Jojo M and Galâa. It focuses in equal measure on the memory and the longing felt on a voyage through their shared footsteps, before and after their secret migration from Redeyef in the Tunisian mining basin, to Nantes, in France.
Transit
Director: Mamadou Dia (Senegal)
Link: https://vimeo.com/340877655
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Language: French, Arabic/ Subtitles: English
Synopsis: The documentary gives glimpses into the everyday life of two different asylum seekers in Senegal, a country that has historically welcomed refugees from across the continent. The camera accompanies Mahamat, a 60 years old politician from Chad and Jamal, a 26 years old student from Mauritania, and lets the audience decide whether Senegal is indeed the country of the ‘teranga’, or hospitality.
Stranger
Director: Mohammed Jadema & Vanessa Macedo (Gambia – USA)
Link: https://cloud.rosalux.de/s/esDodGy79kdCsnz
Password: kasF05hi
Language: English, German, Gambian/ Subtitles: English
Synopsis: Muhammed feels like a stranger, both in the place that he was born, The SeneGambia, and the country where he lives now – Germany. After 10 years of living in Europe he is regarded as a European by his family and friends in The SeneGambia, and he feels like a stranger in Germany since people always ask him when he is going back home. ‘Luntango’ (Stranger) is a story about an activist and self-taught photographer that uses the power of the arts to communicate to the greater society what it means to be black, refugee, and a migrant today.
Foreigners
Director: Christophe Nyemeck Beat (Cameroon)
Link: https://cloud.rosalux.de/s/ejoLEKYfcQeJ2tN
Password: dPUvX66a
Language: French/ No subtitles
Synopsis: Economic migrants have a hard time in Douala, the capital of Cameroon. The hard conditions of their work are often made more precarious by the risk of abuse and discrimination. This film presents an exception to the rule: The close friendship between two shopkeepers – Ali from Guinea and resident Bosis from Cameroon – give an example of open minded cooperation and the resilience of the human spirit while it also shows the difficult aspects of immigrant life.