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Voices of African Cinema

Program curated by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga invites the filmmakers Akuol de Mabior and Milisuthando Bongela, two of the most vibrant cinematic voices today, to present their debut documentaries and to speak about the imaginaries and languages of contemporary African cinema.

Milisuthando Bongela

Milisuthando Bongela

The Apartheid Files

Filmmaker and writer Milisuthando Bongela speaks with one of Africa’s leading filmmakers, Tsitsi Dangarembga, about working with archives, her personal experience of apartheid, and filmmaking in South Africa. This event takes places within Resident CCCB, with ...

Akuol de Mabior

Akuol de Mabior

Belonging to a Continent

Akuol de Mabior is a new director in African cinema and was the first South Sudanese filmmaker to premiere at the Berlinale. In this session, she speaks with Tsitsi Dangarembga about the political and social role of cinema and its power to transform the predominant imaginaries ...