What is the legacy, the reach and the meaning of African independences – at times gained after particularly violent and difficult struggles – for African descendants, the children of dismantled empires who live in Europe and in Africa and maintain a relationship with both continents? Even when it arises discreetly, the turmoil caused by the wars for African independence has nourished the work of artists born several decades later.

FILMS

Ça va, ça va, on continue (2012)
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc / Portugal / 30 min

Through actor Bia Gomes, Mathieu Abonnenc enters into a dialogue in this film with Flora Gomes’s Morte Negada, exploring the role of the records of the colonial war, of the appropriation of the culture and voice of the other, of difference and of identity. A provocative film, full of self-criticism.

Bateau Ivre (2012)
Chafik Allal, Claudio Capanna / Belgium – Italy – Algeria / 64 min

A white teacher takes his students, almost all of them of African origin, on a boat trip on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal. During the outing, the conversation leads to unexpected reactions and topics, including the relationship between the north and the south, colonisation, the search for our dark side, the disillusionment with the European dream.

Summer Garden: Film festival

This outdoor film festival is divided in 6 sessions and included in the parallel activities of the exhibition Europa Oxalá, as well as in the program of Summer Garden 2022.