HAUNTINGS
This film program traces the afterlives of colonialism, the weight of memory, and the ongoing struggles over representation, history, and belonging. From Ghana to Haiti, from the Netherlands to Tanzania, these films speak to the haunted present – a present where archives are contested, ancestors are misremembered or silenced, and identities are shaped through resistance.
The short film program opens with YOU HIDE ME, Nii Kwate Owoo’s urgent intervention into colonial looting and museum politics andmoves into Festus Toll’s poetic work THE STORY OF NE KUKO, where past and present collide in a search for belonging. Additionally, in DES RÊVES EN BATEAUX PAPIERS, Samuel Suffren evokes the fragility of hope amidst Haiti’s social turbulence.
The feature-length works continue this thread: DAS LEERE GRAB examines the scars of Germany’s colonial crimes in Tanzania and the refusal to forget. AU CIMETIÈRE DE LA PELLICULE uncovers a missing cinematic past in Guinea, making the act of filmmaking itself a form of resurrection.
Together, these works reveal not only what was stolen or lost, but also what endures – and what must be reclaimed.
A program curated by Jacqueline Nsiah.
SHORT FILM PROGRAMM
FRIDAY, 09.05. | 5 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
DAS LEERE GRAB – THE EMPTY GRAVE
SATURDAY, 10.05. | 5 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
AU CIMETÌERE DE LA PELLICULE
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 9:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
