+ Q+A afterwards with director Lina Zacher
Three important German film festivals are guests in Brussels every year: the Berlinale Forum, DOK Leipzig and Duisburger Filmwoche. From the Duisburger Filmwoche programme 2020, we’re presenting Fonja by Lina Zacher this year. Following the Belgian premiere, the director will be available for a film discussion with Alexander Scholz, curator of the Duisburger Filmwoche.
About the film: Fonja
By Lina Zacher in cooperation with Ravo Henintsoa Andrianatoandro, Lovatiana Desire Santatra, Sitraka Hermann Ramanamokatra, Jean Chrisostome Rakotondrabe, Erick Edwin Andrianamelona, Elani Eric Rakotondrasoa, Todisoa Niaina Sylvano Randrialalaina, Sitrakaniaina Raharisoa, Adriano Raharison Nantenaina and Alpha Adrimamy Fenotoky
(Germany/Madagaskar 2019, Malagasy, UT: English, 80‘)
Fonja gives an insight into everyday life in a youth prison in Madagascar from the perspective of the young detainees themselves. During a 4-month film workshop, the young people learn to use film as a means of communication for themselves. The result of the workshop, an 80-minute documentary film tells about a place and at the same time a microcosm in which values and norms are created by the young people themselves - a journey into the daily life of the minors, shaped by their struggles and dreams and their great spirit to invest all of their creativity, energy and inspiration to make their own film.
About the director: Lina Zacher
Lina Zacher, born in 1991, studied Industrial Design and Game and Learning Design from 2013-2016 and then moved to the class of Stella Geppert in the field of Art Education. Together with Delphine Bishop she developed the video exchange project “Mio“, a concept for improving intercultural learning in schools and then founded the same-named association “Mio e.V“. In the Philippines, Lina Zacher spent more than half a year working with refugee children of the indigenous tribe ‘Lumad‘ and realized together with the Philippine artist Aba Dalena the exhibition ‘Batang Lumad‘ (Lumad Child), which addresses the current problem of ‘landgrabbing‘.
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Fonja she spent more than four months in a youth prison in Madagascar, teaching camera handling, image composition, and editing techniques.
“PERSPEKTIVEN – Berlinale Forum, DOK Leipzig, Duisburger Filmwoche“ is an initiative by Goethe-Institut Brussels and BOZAR Films, programmed with Le p'tit ciné asbl, in cooperation with the Berlinale Forum, Arsenal – Institute for Film und Video Art, DOK Leipzig and Duisburger Filmwoche. The series is kindly supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
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