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This year's festival edition opens with Adolf El Assal's tragicomedy SAWAH. (Egypt/ Luxembourg/ Belgium 2020 / 8.11.) The movie portrays the odyssey of the young Egyptian DJ Samir, whose plane lands in Luxembourg due to a strike on the journey to a DJ festival from Cairo to Brussels. As if that isn't enough, his luggage is lost along with his passport and music recordings, and he is mistaken for a refugee… Afterwards, a film discussion with the director follows... The AFRIKAMERA program at the Humboldt Forum opens with a theater performance by the Burkinabe actress Roukiata Ouédraogo. In her solo JE DEMANDE LA ROUTE (10.11.) she lets the audience participate in her adventurous journey from the suburbs of Ouagadougou to the Ch teau-Rouge district in Paris and tells with much humor and self-irony about her life in the French diaspora, which led her from odd jobs as a cashier and hairdresser to the stage of the Thé tre de l'Œuvre... Ismael El Iraqi's movie ZANKA CONTACT (BURNING..

Primary location: Berlin