Eröffnung Destination: Tashkent

In the organizer's words:

Miriam Makeba Auditorium (HKW)
Free admission

Program
19:00 Greetings by Bonaventure Ndikung (HKW), Johannes Ebert (Goethe Institut), Can Sungu (HKW)

19:30 Screening
With an introduction by Aboubakar Sanogo
Emitaï (God of Thunder)
D: Ousmane Sembène, 1971, Senegal, 103', Wolof, Diola, French with English subtitles, with live translation into German
During the Second World War, the Vichy regime recruits men from the French colonies. The resistance in a Diola village in Senegal develops into an uprising under the merciless pressure of colonial rule and ends in tragedy. Ousmane Sembène's cinematic narrative follows the gradual escalation of the conflict with a focus on the villagers. However, it does not draw its dramatic strength from the fates of the individual protagonists, but from the fatal clash between the village's established order of life and the ignorance, disrespect and aggression of the 'white' colonialists. Just as the village elder directs his hope not to Emitaï, the god of change, but to the uprising, Sembène directs his hope to the young generation.

21:30 DJ Set (Magnus Hirschfeld Bar)

Destination: Tashkent is a festival for film and discourse that takes place at HKW and other locations in Berlin and Tashkent. It is based on the concept and history of the Tashkent Festival for Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, which took place in Uzbekistan from 1968 to 1988. Over 240 filmmakers, actors, critics and politicians from 49 Asian and African countries took part in the first edition; a total of 115 feature and documentary films were shown. From 1976 onwards, filmmakers from Latin America also took part. The home countries of many of the participants had concluded strategic alliances with the Soviet Union against colonialism, capitalism and Western imperialism, but their role in Tashkent was by no means limited to national representation. The cinema of the so-called Third World was actively involved, creating a space for direct South-South exchange, even between countries that were non-aligned or critical of the Soviet Union. The numerous discussion panels, receptions and excursions, which were an integral part of the festival, were decisive for this.