After Life, Kapita, Fatherland and Ahorita Frames | Berlinale Meets... | February 2021

Forum Expanded section head Stefanie Schulte Strathaus met with Jonna Kina, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Cherie Rivers Ndaliko, Moritz Siebert and Angelika Levi, the directors of "After Life", "Kapita", "Fatherland" and "Ahorita Frames". Screening in the 2021 Forum Expanded programme. About the films: Fatherland: Gerson Liebl from Togo, grandson of a German colonial officer, has been fighting to get German citizenship and residency permission for the last 30 years. As a last-ditch effort he resorts to a hunger strike. Ahorita Frames: At the PedWest border crossing in Tijuana, stranded migrants re-stage the history of the Latin American women who cleaned the “Ground Zero” of the World Trade Center without residence permits and without proper respiratory protection. Kapita: By recoding archival footage and intertwining it with contemporary images, Kapita exposes patterns of extraction and burial to decode colonial representations—and exploitation—of central African land and people and mines. After Life : A composition of two separate films explores transcendental issues through illegal excavations of tombs – a phenomenon faced by many rural archaeological sites. The films portray both a site and an object originating from one of the necropoleis around Narce. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BERLINALE CHANNEL HERE ► https://bit.ly/BerlinaleYouTube​​ CHECK OUT ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berlinale/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/berlinale ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/berlinale ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/berlinale ► Website: https://www.berlinale.de​​ ► Newsletter: https://bit.ly/BerlinaleNewsletter​ #Berlinale #ForumExpanded