Kick-off iAfrica Film Festival 2022: ‘Kumbuka’ (DRC)

The ASCL proudly presents the kick-off of the iAfrica Film Festival 2022. On 6 October, the film ‘Kumbuka’ (2021) by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo will be screened in Leiden. Register for this event via:
https://www.ascleiden.nl/news/kick-iafrica-film-festival-2022-kumbuka-drc

Kumbuka is a multi-dimensional film that confronts the history and legacy of colonial views of Africa. It tells the story of two emerging African filmmakers as they struggle to re-edit an acclaimed yet controversial Dutch film about them (‘Stop Filming Us’). Interspersed with their story are two contradictory collections of archival footage, which provide a meta-critique both of the colonial project and of the Africanfuturistic movement that is growing in the DRC in the wake of the ongoing project of recoding aesthetics.

Spoken: French/Swahili/English. Subtitled: English.