Blinded by the Lights

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Blinded by the Lights

Blinded by the Lights
Francis Yushau Brown
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Ghana
2025
13 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

A man throws off the shackles of slavery, lays the traditional Kente cloth aside, puts on a business suit – and starts to walk towards the future. Or towards what he thinks is the future, because this is not a pleasant walk: To the cheers of the people, the man pushes into the backroom of an Asian restaurant where he flogs plots of land, moves to the next backroom, money case in hand, to bribe the pastor and ultimately ends up on stage to give a state-supporting speech as President – against corruption, of course. The career of our nameless protagonist – whose sunglasses-covered face, interestingly, we get to see only in the limelight – takes him right through the streets of an African metropolis, past protests being suppressed, through a dilapidated infrastructure, criminal gangs, and even natural disasters.
Nobody has thrown off the shackles of slavery in Francis Yushau Brown’s relentlessly critical film. Instead, a few individuals have chained themselves to nepotism and keep the rest of the population poor and backwards. His film is a 3D indictment brimming with rage, including of the Western and Far Eastern (neo) colonizers. And far above hover the enraged gods, waiting for the people to put an end to this situation at last.


Marie Ketzscher

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28.10.
#263
Passage Kinos Astoria
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28.10.2025
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29.10.
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31.10.
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31.10.2025
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Director
Francis Yushau Brown
Script
Francis Yushau Brown
Editor
Charles Sam
Producer
Ruth Ojougboh
Sound
Gomez Beatx
Sound Design
Gomez Beatx
Score
Gomez Beatx
Animation
Francis Yushau Brown, Charles Seyi Kilanko, Kingsford Appiah, Jason Bonsu Sarpong
Animation Technique
3D Digital

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Main Contact
Francis Yushau Brown
hello@animaxfybstudios.com
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award