06.09.2024 | MELODY OF LOVE (AR/BE/ET/DE 2023, Edmundo Bejarano)

AR/BE/ET/DE 2023, D: Edmundo Bejarano, A: Elijah Reid, Kalkidan Abiy, 85′, OV with English subtitles, DCP

A young jazz musician roams the night-time slums of Addis Ababa with his guitar. Michael has agreed to move back to Brussels in three days to live with his mother and sister. Even though he hates Europe. There are only a few moments to say goodbye: during a jam session and extended caresses in bed, in a bumper car ride. Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, makes a guest appearance and is otherwise omnipresent. It rains frequently, neon lights phosphoresce in the night, Michael dances one last time as a Michael Jackson lookalike. South Americans Edmundo Bejarano and Carlos Vargas met in Berlin years ago and made this wonderfully unagitated film on a small budget on their adopted home continent of Africa. A melancholy film about rootlessness.

Fri 6 Sept	UT Connewitz
6 pm	€ 7 (6 reduced)

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