Across the Sea

 

Saturday, 4 September, 18:20 - 19:35 / Kijkhuis 1

How does one develop the sense of belonging to a place? And how does this same place define our own identity? The protagonists of these films are embedded in the manifold relationship between Africa and the West. The water separating the two continents becomes a bridge to discover one’s roots, to explore a new perception of the self and the others.

Duration

75 min.

Tickets
Inès Eshun, 15 min. (Belgium/2018)

Esteban, a future Olympic swimmer, has grown up with a single mother and doesn't know who his father is. As he searches for his identity in this poetic short film, he determines swimming is a metaphor for life itself.

Solomon Mekonen, 35 min. (Ethiopia, Germany/2018)

Emails to My Little Sister is an anthropologically intended film created as part of an MA thesis project concerning the phenomenology of Blackness in Berlin. The film, however, takes place in Ethiopia where becoming Black is reflected back on in siblings’ email conversations.

Baloji, 5 min. (France/2019)

Ancestral patterns combined with modern prejudices and stigma explain skin bleaching.

Festus Toll, 20 min. (The Netherlands/2020)

A director, born in the Netherlands, travels to Kenya for a poetical exploration of 'home' for three generations of his family: his uncle, himself and his newborn newphew Genson.

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