MAMI WATA
By C. J. «Fiery» Obasi, with Evelyne Ily Juhen, Uzoamaka Aniunoh.
In the remote West African village of Iyi, the villagers worship the Mermaid-deity MAMI WATA and look to guidance from their healer MAMA EFE, the Intermediary between them and Mami Wata, and Mama Efe’s daughter ZINWE and protégé PRISCA. But when children begin to die and disappear, JABI, a local, begins to sow doubt amongst the people, while Zinwe runs away propelled by her own anguish. Soon, the arrival of a rebel warlord JASPER tilts the odds in Jabi’s favor. With Mama Efe murdered and Iyi under new control, Prisca and Zinwe must plot to save their village and restore Mami Wata’s glory in Iyi. Based on the West Afrikan Mermaid folklore and mythology.
LES FILLES D'OLFA - FOUR DAUGHTERS
| Mon 09.10. | 20:00 | LES FILLES D'OLFA - FOUR DAUGHTERS FLIZ-Filmclub | OVdf | Gotthard |
By Kaouther Ben Hania, with Ichraq Matar, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui.
LES FILLES D'OLFA, a Tunisian woman and mother of 4 daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters. An intimate journey full of hope, rebellion, violence, intergenerational transmission and sisterhood, which will question the very foundation of our societies.
ABOUT KIM SOHEE
| Mon 16.10. | 19:30 | ABOUT KIM SOHEE Im Gotthard Um Die Welt | OVdf |  | Gotthard |
By July Jung, with Doona Bae, Kim Si-eun.
Sohee is a high school student focusing on a job training education. Hoping for a good job, Sohee starts an job training at a subcontracted call center, but she faces big pressure of greedy company. It is too hard for high school student to bear this situation and it leads to her death. Detective Oh Yoo-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, becomes in charge of this case. She starts to follow traces to reveal the causes of her death.
1976
By Manuela Martelli, with Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina.
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
FREMONT
By Babak Jalali, with Anaita Wali Zada, Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington, Hilda Schmelling.
Beautiful and troubled 20-something Donya, an Afghan translator who used to work with the U.S. government, has trouble sleeping. She lives by herself in Fremont, California, in a building with other Afghan immigrants and often dines alone at a local restaurant watching soap operas. Her routine changes when she’s promoted to writing the fortunes at her job at a fortune cookie factory in the city. As her fortunes are read by strangers throughout the Bay, Donya’s smoldering longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.