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Talks «Akuol de Mabior. Belonging to a continent»
Cinema does not merely tell stories; it also redefines how we see the world. In this discussion, director Akuol de Mabior, one of the most powerful emerging voices in African cinema, talks with writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga about the power of cinema to dismantle imposed imaginaries about Africa and rebuild new forms of representation.
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Akuol de Mabior comes from a family central to South Sudan’s independence, a legacy that runs through her work. Through her perspective, cinema becomes a tool for questioning identity, diaspora and belonging: what does it mean to call home a country where you have not grown up? How do you find your own voice when the dominant narrative has always been told from outside?
The first South Sudanese filmmaker to premiere at the Berlinale, Akuol de Mabior uses cinematic language to transform the narrative about the continent, moving it away from the fatalism with which it has historically been represented. In this session, alongside Tsitsi Dangarembga, she explores cinema as a political space and a space of memory, as a way to resist, imagine and reclaim the complexity of Africa and its diaspora.
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