Short Film Program:

Followed by a talk with Rehana Esmail and Jacqueline Nsiah, Rob Jacobs, and Nizar Saleh (Collectif Faire-Part), moderated by Lisabona Rahman

You Hide Me
Nii Kwate Owoo, Ghana, UK 1970, 17 min. English, mp4

Uprize!
Sifiso Khanyile, South Africa 2017, 58 Min. English with English subtitles, mp4

L'escale (The Stopover)
Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Rob Jacobs, and Anne Reijniers, Congo, Belgium 2022, 14 min. French with English subtitles, mp4

The program consists of three short films from Cinelogue's film library section Movements Towards Liberation, curated by Jacqueline Nsiah. The films deal with different forms of human movement, the memory of colonization and neo-colonial conditions.

You Hide Me reveals rare Asante art treasures stolen by the British that have never been shown before. Uprize! provides a glimpse into 1970s South Africa and the cost of the fight for quality education and freedom. L'Escale is a testimony by filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh that gives an insight into the impossibility for Congolese artists to travel easily and safely.

Rehana Esmail is the founder and director of Cinelogue, a curated streaming platform for cinema beyond the Western canon. Her curatorial work focuses on cinema as an emancipatory practice in regions that have suffered brutal colonial occupation.

Jacqueline Nsiah is part of the Berlinale selection committee and co-curator of the Africa Film Festival Cologne. Some of her past roles include the Cambridge African Film Festival and the Festival do Rio. She received her M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin.