Using specially selected film excerpts from African cinema, Diego Ndombasi will take his course participants on a journey through African film and television. What is it like to work as a filmmaker in African countries? The different film excerpts will serve as a starting point for an interactivediscussion. With his own film projects and experience as a basis, Diego will give course participants an insight into the practical work of a filmmaker.

Diego Ndombasi (born in Kinshasa) is a filmmaker from Mali. He worked for the first pan-African television channel Africable Television in Mali. He showed his film ‘In Erwartung Europas’ at the Wildwuchs festival in Basel in 2015. He has also worked on many projects with ZDF, the Kaserne in Basel and the Wildwuchs festival. He campaigns to help bring together and connect people from different cultures in Basel.


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