Movie night at IWALEWAHAUS
In October 2017 our fellow member Fiona organized a movie night around the inspiring documentary “Les Sauteurs Those Who Jump”, including an interview with the Protagonist Abou Bakar Sidibé in the Iwalewa house in Bayreuth. With over 100 interested visitors the room was filled when the movie, filmed by Abou Bakar Sidibé from Mali, who is also the protagonist and the co-director at the same time, started. Watching the movie about him filming the daily life of the people living in camps in the forest of Morocco near the border to Mellila, preparing their next trial to cross the border to Europe, made the movie very personal and sometimes emotional. There were moments of hope, fear and also of joy, when the audience had to laugh, which was contrasted by the inhumane perspective of the Spanish border control cameras also shown in the movie. To have a closer look at our event accompanied by West-African Kora music played by Ablaye Kouyaté, watch our video on youtube: