When Abou from Mali finally made it to Europe, it felt like a new life had started for him. A life, that offered a future.

The film he made about his journey from Africa to Europe gets shown all over the world and throughout Germany, where Abou lives as an asylum seeker. His life oscillates between that of an artist with a voice, who is invited to screenings and events, and the isolation and boredom in a remote refugee centre.

An essayistic reflection about Europe’s invisible borders and filmmaking as an act of self-empowerment

Directors        Abou Bakar Sidibé & Moritz Siebert 
Camera          Abou Bakar Sidibé
Editing            Cora Czarnecki

Mix                 Clemens Nürnberger, NEUTON BERLIN

Grade             Abdul Twebti, PLANEMO

Germany/Tunesia    2019    22 Min

awards:

Main price of German Competition at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen