Film African Metropolis
Open Air Kino
Directed by various (2013) | Original versions with English subtitles, colour, 95 min.The film screening takes place at the Kandt House Museum and is also the closing event of the exhibition ‘African Modernism’.
African Metropolis is a compilation of six short fiction films, set in six major African cities, a unique partnership towards new African cinema. The films from Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi tell urban tales about life in African metropolises. Over 50 percent of the continent’s total population now lives in cities and vital urban cultures are forming and transforming – fast, and with growing complexity.