Eröffnung Destination: Tashkent

In the organizer's words:

Destination: Tashkent
Experiences of cinematic internationalism
Screenings with live commentary, keynotes, talks, lecture performances
27.11.-1.12.2024 | Free admission to the opening

More information about the program: hkw.de/tashkent

The Destination: Tashkent festival celebrates the extraordinary history and cultural influence of the Tashkent Festival for Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, which took place in Uzbekistan for the first time in 1968. The festival will be revived at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and other venues in Berlin and Tashkent.

Opening program
19:00 Greetings by Bonaventure Ndikung (HKW), Johannes Ebert (Goethe Institute), Can Sungu (HKW)

19:30 Screening
With an introduction by Aboubakar Sanogo
Emitaï (God of Thunder)
D: Ousmane Sembène, 1971, Senegal, 103', Wolof, Diola, French with English subtitles, with live translation into German

During the Second World War, the Vichy regime recruits men from the French colonies. The resistance in a Diola village in Senegal develops into an uprising under the merciless pressure of colonial rule and ends in tragedy. Ousmane Sembène's cinematic narrative follows the gradual escalation of the conflict with a focus on the villagers. However, it does not draw its dramatic strength from the fates of the individual protagonists, but from the fatal clash between the village's established order of life and the ignorance, disrespect and aggression of the 'white' colonialists. Just as the village elder directs his hope not to Emitaï, the god of change, but to the uprising, Sembène directs his hope to the young generation.

21:30 DJ Set (Magnus Hirschfeld Bar)