Mo Asumang: The Aryans

The German filmmaker, author and television presenter Mo Asumang knows how racism can make one feel: as a daughter of a German mother and a father from Ghana, she has experienced enough racist insults and discrimination in her everyday life. When she started to engage in fighting against racism and xenophobia, she received threatening letters. Mo Asumang has not been intimidated:  in her documentary, the Arier (2014), she carried out an personal research on extreme right-wing cricles - from German neo-Nazis up to the Klu Klux Klan in the United States. Her film was awarded German Directors Award "Metropolis" in 2015 and was nominated for numerous awards. She tries to find out what is the idea behind "The Master Race" and why it is always about exclusion and violence against " the others". Mo Asumang’s book Mo und die Arier. Allein unter Rassisten und Neonazis  has always been a bestseller in Germany.
 
By invitation of the Goethe-Institut, The Baptist University of Hong Kong and The Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, Mo Asumang is visiting Hong Kong and will present her film, give readings from her book and discuss with the audience the danger of racism and xenophobia nowadays.