… refused an identification within the majority nation, the people had to find out who they are. Their histories lie far back in the past, inscribed in their skins. But it is not because of their skins that they become Black in their heads.
Stuart Hall
Screeningdates | Festivals | Awards
| SCREENINGDATES |
| festivals |
| WORLD PREMIERE - INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILMFESTIVAL AMSTERDAM - IDFA - 2019 |
| GERMAN PREMIERE - INTERNATIONALES FRAUENFILMFESTIVAL DORTMUND/KÖLN - 2020 |
| BERLIN PREMIERE - ACHTUNG BERLIN - NEW BERLIN FILM AWARD - 2020 |
| 16.06. Arsenal (Institut für Film- u. Videokunst )on Location: Die Linse, Münster |
| tv |
| ZDF - Kleines Fernsehspiel / plus Mediathek |
| 3SAT + Phönix |
| AL Jazeera "Witness" - shortened version |
| TVO - Ontario/Canada |
| more festivals |
| March 2020 - Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France |
| 14.9. - 18.9. Quibdo Africa Film Festival, Colombia online |
| 01.10. - 02.10. Human Rights Film Festival Nürnberg, Germany |
| 07.10. - 13.10. Festival du Cinéallemand France, Goethe Institut Paris |
| 07.10. - 10.10. EINS ZU EINS - Festival für Theater, Performance, Fine Arts... Berlin |
| 08.10. - 10.10. iAfrica Film Festival The Hague, Netherland |
| 11.10. - 27.10. Institut de l’image Aix-en-provence, France |
| 18.10. - 23.10. PRIX - European Broadcasting Festival, Germany |
| 30.10. - 08.11. BFI London, Royal African Society’s FILM AFRICA, |
| 20.11. -29.11. The No Direct Flight Nairobi film season, Kenya - online |
| 23. 11. German Cinema Now! Seattle, Goethe Institut, USA - online |
| 24.11. Out of Africa International Film Festival Nairobi, Kenya – online |
| 29.11. Crocevia di Sguardi, Italy - online |
| 05.12. - 11.12. Film Festival LagunImages, Cotonou, Benin |
| 2021 |
| 20.01. - 26.01. KINO-Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã, Portugal, hybrid |
| 25.03. - 31.03. Luxor African Film Festival, Egypt |
| 01.04. -18.04. AFI New African Film Festival at Silver Theatre, USA - online |
| 02.06. -05.06. Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival, UK |
| 07.6.-13.6. Festival "Dear white people..." Freiburg |
| 27.09.-30.09. Festival "Was Wir Filmten" Kino Zazie, Halle |
| 16.10.-23.10. FESPACO, Film Festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| 04.11. Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt a. Main |
| 11.10.-24.10. CinemAfrica, Stockholm |
| 25.10.-31.10. L'Afrique fait son Cinema, Paris |
| 02.11.-06.11. Theater Festival euro-scene Leipzig, Leipzig |
| 16.11.-20.11. Festival Images de Migrations, France |
| 20.11. - 28.11. Film Festival Bangui-Fait son Cinéma, Central African Republic |
| 25.11. - 5.12. Aux Écrans du Réel - Asso Chroma, Le Mans, France |
| 27.11. - 02.12. Biennale of Luanda, Angola |
| 2022 |
| 13.02. Black History Month - Turin, Italy |
| 26.04. - 30.04. Koudougou Doc - Burkina Faso |
| 09.06. Goethe Institut Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso |
| 15.10.-28.10. German American Conference at Havard University, USA |
| 29.10. Goethe Institut Lomé,Togo (Canal Olympia, Université de Lomé |
| 24.11. University of Toronto, Canada |
| 2023 |
| 10.02. Maysles Cinema, Harlem, New York |
| 10.04. Dartmouth College New Hampshire, USA |
| 17.03. Goethe Institut Los Angeles, USA |
| 10.05.-16.05. IFF Beldocs, Belgrad, Serbien |
| 14.06-15.06. Summer-Filminstitut at DEFA-Library, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA |
| 29.06.-04.07. The Future is Africa Filmfestival, Sinema Transtopia, Berlin |
| 16.11.-26.11. Was anderes machen - 60 Jahre ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, Silent Green, Berlin |
| 2024 |
| 06.02.-19.02. Pan African Film Festival Los Angeles, LA, USA |
| 26.03. Revolutionary Romances, Albertinum Dresden |
| 19.04. Echos der Bruderländer, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
| 05.06.-08.06.LightReel Film Festival, Washington |
| 2025 |
| 06.01.Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte) |
| 05.03.Filmforum Museum Ludwig, Internationale Filmschule Köln |
| Spring Term 2025 - Max Kade Guest Professorship, German Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA |
| 09.04. Hopkins Center for the Arts Hanover, New Hampshire, USA |
| 14.04. Colby College, Maine, USA |
| 21.04. Williams College, Waterville, USA |
| 16.06. Arsenal on Location: Die Linse, Münster |
| AWARDS / NOMINATIONS |
| NOMINATION at AFRICA MOVIE ACADEMY AWARDs 2020 for BEST DOCUMENTARY |
| NOMINATION at AFRICA MOVIE ACADEMY AWARDs 2020 for BEST DOCUMENTARY DIASPORA |
| WINNER at AFRICA MOVIE ACADEMY AWARDs 2020 BEST DOCUMENTARY DIASPORA |
| NOMINATION for PRIX EUROPA 2020 BEST DOCUMENTARY |
| NOMINATION for PRIZE OF ECUMENICAL JURY at ACHTUNG BERLIN |
| NOMINATION AUDIENCE AWARD at MOSTRA DE CINEMA DE EXPRESSÃO ALEMÃ, Portugal |
| NOMINATION BEST DOCUMENTARY 2020 by ASSOCIATION of GERMAN FILM CRITICS |
| WINNER COMPETITION BEST DOCUMENTARY DIASPORA at LUXOR AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL |
Worldpremiere November 2019 at IDFA Amsterdam
such as (f.l.t.r.)
Brooke Trezise / Soundesign,
Yana Höhnerbach / Editor,
Anahita Nazemi / Producer
