Schwarze Früchte:

As part of Black History Month, we warmly invite you to a joint screening of the final two episodes of the series Schwarze Früchte followed by a conversation with Lamin Leroy Gibba and David Ụzọchukwu. The evening will be moderated by Thelma Buabeng.

Schwarze Früchte tells the story of Lalo: Black, queer, mid-twenties—and caught in a moment of stumbling. After the unexpected death of his father, everything becomes unsteady. Navigating grief, overwhelm, and the attempt to simply keep going, Lalo makes decisions that challenge him and those around him. The series portrays Black queer life in all its contradictions, vulnerability, and strength—beyond stereotypes and close to the reality of many of us.

Together we will watch the final two episodes and then enter into a conversation: about grief and desire, about self-preservation and self-abandonment, about Black storytelling within the German film and series landscape—and about what it means to write our own stories and make them visible.

This evening is intended as a shared space: for watching, reflecting, sharing, questioning, and exchanging. Black perspectives are centered, and community voices are explicitly welcome.

Lamin Leroy Gibba is an actor, author and producer. His award-winning short film Hundefreund was nominated for a Lola and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, among others. His series Schwarze Früchte is currently running on ARD Mediathek. He completed his studies at The New School University in New York.

David Ụzọchukwu is an Austrian–Nigerian art photographer with a focus on portrait photography who lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.

Thelma Buabeng is a German actor, comedian and TV moderator.