The short film reels bring together short films from the competitions in cross-section programmes.
Contains mentions of death
Contains mentions of murder, racism
Contains depictions of racism
Contains mentions of murder, death
Contains depictions of drug-use, nudity, physical violence
Contains mentions of discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons
Contains mentions of addiction, drug-use, mental health conditions, explicit sex scenes
Contains mentions of sexual violence
Contains mentions of drug-use, death, murder
Contains depictions of physical violence, torture
Contains mentions of racism, murder
Contains depictions of physical violence
Thick smoke clouds rise at the horizon. Oil bubbles from the ground. The gills of a dead fish are black. A sonorous voice recites a poem about blood, anger and the oil-contaminated landscape of the Niger Delta. A crowd of people join in for the refrain. Writer and activist Nnimmo Bassey has been protesting for decades again the oil extraction in the south of Nigeria and its consequences for humans, nature and agriculture. The Ogoni, an ethnic minority from the region, are particularly affected, with their whole basis for life under existential threat as a result. In the 1990s, they organised a powerful political movement, which was violently put down by the military government – also in the interest of Western oil concerns. How is it possible to put up political resistance in such circumstances? “Hope Is a Word” is the portrait of a man who believes in the power of poetic language. With his workshops, Nnimmo Bassey manages to mobilise a new generation of rhetorically and literarily gifted activists. When they read, rap or recite, the film puts their words into the frame in demonstrative fashion. Poetry becomes a political tool here. For a call can come from a verse, a call that others then follow.
Jan-Philipp Kohlmann
Contains mentions of death
Contains mentions of mental health conditions
Contains mentions of war scenes
Contains mentions of drug-use, mental health conditions
Contains mentions of mental health conditions
Contains depictions of violence against animals, murder, physical violence
Photosensitivity warning
Contains mentions of racism
Contains mentions of death
Contains mentions of mental health conditions, murder
Photosensitivity warning
