Speaking Out: Film as a Culture of Memory I Berlinale Talents 2024

A number of films at this year’s Berlinale speak to a culture of remembrance, positing it as a means of speaking out for the oppressed and giving a voice to those less often heard. That’s the spirit that also thrums through an incendiary documentary about the legacy of colonialism, Cece Mlay and Agnes Lisa Wegner’s Berlinale Special presentation “The Empty Grave“, which follows two Tanzanian families as they search for the remains of their ancestors slain by German colonialists. Accompanied on stage by Berlinale Generation filmmaker Luck Razanajaona, whose feature “Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story“ is the first film from Madagascar to be screened at the festival, and echoes the African civil rights movements of the 1970s, an era that marked artistic and musical awakening as a continuation of the struggle for independence. This topical panel, positioned at the heart of this year’s focus on the many the languages of cinema, aims to highlight the diversity of their films and how histories of injustice and resistance can be addressed and redressed on the big screen today. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BERLINALE CHANNEL HERE ► BERLINALE TALENTS ►Instagram: ►Facebook: ►Twitter: ​ ► LinkedIn: BERLINALE ► Instagram: ► Facebook: ► Twitter: ► LinkedIn: ► Website: ​​​ ► Newsletter: #Berlinale #BerlinaleTalents #AgnesLisaWegner #CeceMlay #LuckRazanajaona Thumbnail © We Film, kurhaus production