Lutz Gregor

Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyaté Master Soumy and Ahmed Ag Kaedi - we embark on a musical journey to Mali's agitated heart. Can their music reconcile the country?

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How can art be liberated from the ethnological context of former colonial rulers? The documentary series presents Africa's new museums. The Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar, for example, dates back to the times of French colonial rule in Senegal. Its ethnological collections were once used for research from the perspective of the colonial power. Can the museum reinvent itself?

A fresh start? Fatim has started over so many times. This fascinating young woman from Mali takes us into her life in Halle and lets us see everyday life in Germany during the pandemic through different eyes.

In the Middle Ages, Timbuktu was not only a prosperous trading hub for Tuareg caravans that brought salt, gold and slaves from the south to Egypt and Morocco but also the capital of Islamic intellectual life in West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts from this period still exist today, hidden, buried and forgotten just waiting to be rediscovered. They are the lost libraries of Islamic world knowledge.

The rhythm and editing of the film and the mostly improvised choreography influence each other in this dance film or film dance. Four people in different forms of relationships: two women, a man and a woman, two men. At the center is a frozen love, two open relationships at the edges—a triptych. Three pieces of music: opera arias for the side sections of the triptych, a jazz tango for the main section. On the left and right, a camera on a steadycam; in the middle, a revolving stage—a contact improvisation begins, danced variations on the possibilities of togetherness and disunity.