COLTAN-FIEBER: CONNECTING PEOPLE

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COLTAN FEVER: CONNECTING PEOPLE

Film by Jan-Christoph Gockel and Yves Ndagano & discussion

"We all carry a piece of Congo in our pockets: our smartphones." Yves Ndagano was a child soldier and prospector at a coltan mine in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Coltan Fever: Connecting People, he travels back to the places of his childhood for the first time to revisit his own traumatic story at the original locations. During filming, it becomes clear that the struggle for raw materials still dominates the region.

Yves Ndagano sets out to uncover the link between his own fate and the global commodities trade. Eventually, he also confronts his family, who have rejected him for years-just as the Nyiragongo volcano erupts during the film shoot. In response to both internal and external destruction, Yves turns to a concept often underestimated in Europe: repair-the belief that what is broken can be restored, and that something new can emerge from it.

In this film, an old soldier and miner returns to the places of his childhood in the RDC, where he attempts - despite the opposition of his ravisseurs of the time - to discover the implications of the global trade in primary materials. http://peachesandrooster.de

MIT Yves Ndagano, Ernestine M'Kajabika, Léontine M'Kajabika, Esperence, Ghislain Chimanuka, Julio, Juvenal Muderwa, Ladisi Kajabika Mukabaha, Michael Pietsch, Gianni La Rocca, Patrick Joseph, Laurenz Leky | DIRECTOR Jan-Christoph Gockel & TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo | CAMERA TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo & Eike Zuleeg | SOUND Tavis Jean-Batiste | MONTAGE & DRAMATURGY Christoph Otto | PUPPETRY Michael Pietsch | MUSIC Matthias Grübel | PRODUCTION peaches&rooster | CO-PRODUCTION afroTopia e.V.; R.P.D.Fi. Goma, DR Congo, Theater im Bauturm Köln, Schauspielhaus Graz | FUNDED BY the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda Partnership Association, Shift Phone & Schauspielhaus Graz

Based on the theater project COLTAN-FIEBER by Jan-Christoph Gockel & Ensemble, a co-production of the Theater im Bauturm - Freies Schauspiel Köln with the Theater FALINGA and the Festival Récréâtrales, Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso, the Tarmac des Auteurs, Kinshasa/DR Congo and the Goethe-Institut Kigali/Rwanda.

THEATER IM BAUTURM | June 21, 4-8 p.m. | LANGUAGES French, English, German, Lingala, Maschi, Swahili with German and English subtitles | FILM DURATION 77 MINUTES | INCL. DISCUSSION with Yves Ndagano Badosanye & guests

Yves Ndagano then presents Kalash Story. The play by Jean-Louis, directed by Yves, explores violence and greed on the African continent. The story is narrated by Kalach, a personified B.O.-47, who is accompanied by his accomplice 'The Boy'. Together they unveil a sinister plan: to spread violence and misery, particularly in the Kivu region, and to support global capitalism by plundering its natural resources. In the midst of this tragic story, a female figure rises up through dance and becomes a symbol of hope and resistance. Kalash Story questions the devastating effects of weapons and praises culture as a tool of struggle and resilience.

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