THE REVOLUTION WON'T BE TELEVISED (DAAD-Stipendiatin Rama Thiaw)

In the organizer's words:

Tue 10.9. 19h, followed by a discussion with Rama Thiaw
THE REVOLUTION WON'T BE TELEVISED Rama Thiaw Senegal 2016 Wolof and French. OmeU 110'
When Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office again in 2011, resistance formed - on the streets. Shortly after some school friends, including the rappers Thiat and Kilifeu, founded the movement "Y'en a marre" ("We're fed up"), filmmaker Rama Thiaw joined them - and from then on documented the events from the "inside": meetings, campaigns, arrests, concerts, states of exhaustion, journeys. Over several years, a stirring portrait of a youthful protest movement emerged, which even independent observers have attributed the role of "kingmaker" in the election to. Rama Thiaw shows the rappers and their environment from a close-up that provides a space and framework for the delicate conflicts between music and politics, street and state with cinematographic finesse.

An event in cooperation with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program