Continental Drift: New Views on Africa
Continental Drift: New Views on Africa
- Date
- Feb 10th 2019
- With
- Neus Ballús, Perivi Katjavivi, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Tiny Mungwe moderated by Dorothee Wenner
What’s right and wrong, it’s sometimes said, is a matter of perception. The diverse voices of filmmakers are strong within the Talents alums group and this event delves into the work of Berlinale filmmakers and artists from Lesotho, South Africa and Spain to trigger debate. Dislocated views of the continent allow us to question what counts as “African” anew and thereby interrogate how misrepresentations sharpen our critical senses. We therefore set out to discuss changing perceptions and question contradictory representations, which drift in and out of Africa.
Neus Ballús
Neus Ballús studied filmmaking and creative documentary in Barcelona. Her first feature-length film, LA PLAGA (2013), premiered at Berlinale Forum and was nominated for the European Discovery Prize at the European Film Awards, the European Parliament’s LUX Prize and the Goya Awards. It received more than 20 international prizes, including four Gaudí Awards and the Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Debut. STAFF ONLY is her first fiction film.
Perivi Katjavivi
Born in Oxford, Great Britain, to an English mother and a Namibian father, Perivi Katjavivi grew up in Windhoek, Namibia. He studied film at Columbia College in Los Angeles where he attained his BA. He holds an MA in African Cinema from the University of Cape Town and is a PhD candidate in Visual History at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a self-taught filmmaker from Lesotho who divides his time between Lesotho, South Africa and Berlin. His shorts "Mosonngoa" (2014) and "Behemoth- or the Game of God" (2015) have screened at numerous international film festivals, including Clermont Ferrand and Durban, and won several awards. His feature "Mother. I am suffocating. This is my last Film about you." was selected for Final Cut in Venice in 2018 and is premiering at Berlinale Forum in 2019. He attended Berlinale Talents in 2012.
Tiny Mungwe
Tiny Mungwe is a South African filmmaker and arts manager. She currently works at STEPS in Cape Town, producing a documentary series on migration called Generation Africa. She previously worked as an independent documentary producer and as a director on the popular South African show UZALO. She was programmes manager at the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN) where she organised literature, poetry and dance events, as well as the Industry Programme of the Durban International Film Festival.
Dorothee Wenner
Dorothee Wenner is a filmmaker, film curator and writer based in Berlin. She serves as delegate to Berlin International Film Festival for the Subsahara-Africa region, as external curator at Humboldt Forum for film/cinema and others. Since inception in 2005, Dorothee belongs to the jury of Lagos based African Movie Academy Awards. Her latest work as a filmmaker was the web-series "Kinshasa Collection".