Films by Nina Khada

Germany, France, Togo 2023, 96 min
by Jürgen Ellinghaus

Shortly before the First World War, the German 'Africa explorer' and film director Hans Schomburgk embarked on an unprecedented film expedition to West Africa to shoot adventure and documentary films in the exotic setting in the north of the then German colony of Togo. To this day, his films remain virtually unknown in Africa. Guided by the report of the actress Meg Gehrts, we travel more than a century later with a mobile cinema to original locations of Schomburgk's film adventures. Together wi

2023, 83 min
by Chloé Aïcha Boro

After the death of her uncle, an influential dignitary of Mandingo Islam, the director films her family court. An inheritance trial breaks out between the supporters of customary law and the defenders of official law, inherited from Western colonization. The court becomes the theater where the future of an emblematic family is played out.