Touki Bouki (35mm OmU) - Open Air Kino

In the organizer's words:

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal 1973, 91 minutes, 35mm, original version with German subtitles, original language: Wolof

The young shepherd Mory has brought the cattle to the slaughterhouse, rides through Dakar on his horn-decorated motorcycle, meets the student Anna and wants to set off with her to Paris, to the "little angel of paradise". To be able to afford the crossing, they try their hand at petty crime.

A crazy, rousing, bursting-at-the-seams plot about the African fascination with the promises of the Western world. This is also reflected in the whirling style of the self-taught Mambéty: Touki Bouki, Wolof for The Journey of the Hyena, combines film noir and nouvelle vague, comedy and social criticism and is an antithesis to the large-scale sell-out in the blaxploitation cinema that was thriving at the same time. In the bright colors of the 70s, Touki Bouki impetuously defies all narrative conventions.
Anything goes!

In the supporting program: Cassis
Director: Jonas Mekas
USA 1966, 6 minutes, 16mm, without dialog

Lawn in front of the HfG, Platz der Menschenrechte
Free admission, donation requested

An event in cooperation with the Science Office of the City of Karlsruhe as part of the Effects Festival 2025.

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