AfriKaleidoskop – Le Sermon des Prophètes

AfriKaleidoskop – Le Sermon des Prophètes

In January 2024, the Cluster’s event series „AfriKaleidoskop“ will continue. Following the Cinema Africa 2024 film festival, further African films will be shown as part of AfriKaleidoskop. On January 25 and 26, three films will be screened at the Kulturhaus Neuneinhalb in Bayreuth with each presentation to be followed by an audience discussion.
AfriKaleidoskop is an event series of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in which films with an African context are shown at irregular intervals. More information: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/…/index.html

Le Sermon des prophètes (Burkina Faso, 2023)
Director: Seydou Boundaoné
87 min; Country of Production: Burkina Faso; Languages: French, Subtitles: Engl/Fr.

Abdou Djamal, a 50-year-old leader of an armed group, passes himself off as a gold digger and a devout Muslim. He lives confined to his home in a district of Ouagadougou, a small town on the outskirts of the capital. He only goes out to attend the mosque and a few social ceremonies. He is a strategist and a master manipulator.