Obenhausen International Short Film Festival on Tour: Latin America Experiences

The Goethe-Institut and The Bioscope are proud to screen three short film packages from the renowned Oberhausen Short Film Festival on three consecutive Wednesdays in September. Founded in 1954, the festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world, and one of the most celebrated for short films. Curated by Deniz Sertkol, this special selection will bring Latin American experiences, German films focusing on migration, and a youth programme from around the world to Johannesburg.

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Latin America Experiences

New productions from Latin America have recently been strongly represented at Oberhausen. This selection takes a new look at the current political and social conditions on the continent and focusses on indigenous and Afro-Cuban communities. The documentary “Camino de lava” portrays Afrofeminist and queer activist Afibola. Afibola tries to teach her son Olorun how to be a free, Afro-Cuban man despite the obstacles surrounding them. In the intimacy of her own home, Afibola reflects on the difficulty of raising a black child in a racist and discriminatory society.

In 1982 the indigenous Zoque community was forced to relocate due to a volcanic eruption. “( ( ( ( ( /*\ ) ) ) ) ) )” is the portrait of a village in Chiapas, Mexico, its culture, sounds and architecture. The film documents the modern challenges and world view of a community that is also under political pressure to preserve its land and rights. Finally, with Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Natalia Escobar, documentary and fiction merge in a transcultural narrative. Aribada meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen of the Embera tribes, in the middle of the Colombian coffee region. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in this unique world.

With English subtitles.