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On the agenda
Sat 22.10.202211:00–12:30
Competition
Q&A
Screening
DAMSLab/Auditorium
Piazzetta P. P. Pasolini 5/b
Other films in competition
After gaining independence in the early 1960s, the young African nations are greeted by an unexpected and enigmatic friend from a far-off continent: Soviet parliamentarians arrive in an endless stream, paying visits to Africa’s new leaders.
A journey by sea and overland is punctuated by alternating rhyming verses. These are poems by Fadil Hasin Ash-Shalmani that add to a little documented historical fact: the deportation of numerous civilians in the early years of the Italian occupation of Libya.
Xaraasi Xanne recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France.
Immediately after World War II, 5,000 children were sent from Austria to stay for a short time with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of the war.
