DOK.network Africa
Africa-Day 2015
Documentary’s political role in Africa’s young democracies.
Thu, 14.05. 11.00 – 22.00, Museum Fünf Kontinente
For the second time, DOK.fest Munich presents an Africa Day at the Museum Fünf Kontinente with films from and about Africa and discussions.
Africa is a continent in upheaval: ethnic conflicts, poverty and migration contrast with economic growth and democratisation. The media, like everywhere in the global information society, plays a central role in Africa just now. Documentary is the same and it has undertaken a particular function for the young democracies on the African continent. Just what influence does it really have on the formation of identity in society? Can it contribute to the processing of past events and strengthen emancipation and democratisation? In this sense, does it play a special role in the developmental politics of the African continent? Or should it be content to see itself as more of an art form?
The event will be conducted in English
The purchase of one film-ticket already entitles to the participation in the disscussion at 19.00.
11.00 Film. DEMOCRATS (p 20)
14.00 Film: LA SIRÈNE DE FASO FANI (p 39)
16.30 Film: MINERS SHOT DOWN (p 51)
19.00 Kickoff: Rens van Munster, Danish Institute for International Relations, Copenhagen: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND WORLD POLITICS
19.15 Discussion: DOCUMENTARY FILM’S POLITICAL ROLE IN YOUNG DEMOCRACIES ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT?
21.00 Film: ELEPHANT'S DREAM (p 37)
Panel discussion participants:
Camilla Nielsson (Director Democrats, Denmark)
Femi Odugbemi (Director, iREP Documentary
Film Festival Lagos, Nigeria)
Michel K. Zongo
(Director, La Sirène de Faso Fani, Burkina Faso)
Rens van Munster (Academic, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark)
Moderation: Barbara Off, DOK.network Africa
