AfriKaleidoskop – The Planter’s Plantation

AfriKaleidoskop – The Planter’s Plantation

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

The Planter’s Plantation (Cameroon 2022)
Director: Eystein Young Dingha
120 min; Trailer
Languages: Pidgin English and English Subtitle: Engl.
Awards: Ecran D’or (first for a Cameroonian movie in 26 years) Ecrans Noirs Festival 2022

In a West African plantation in the 1960s, a young, determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father’s legacy, a colonial plantation, amidst disagreements, betrayal, and secrets. A musical comedy drama, an allegory of Neo-colonization.