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The Thoughts of Our Ancestors

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2024 runtime 30'00 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1:1 sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language German, Swahili subtitles English
screening format 16mm aspect ratio 2.39:1 (Cinemascope) sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language German, Swahili

In an Afrofuturistic future free from wars and discriminations, a young Black woman receives memories from our present and has to decide whether to inherit or erase the trauma of her ancestors. A hybrid film journey between an Afrofuturistic future and a documentary-style narrative of the director's life as the child of a German and a Tanzanian.

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The Thoughts of Our Ancestors The Thoughts of Our Ancestors
director Kokutekeleza Musebeni Production Seren Şahin, Kokutekeleza Musebeni DOP Moritz Dehler, Kokutekeleza Musebeni Editing Lara Milena Brose Script Lara Milena Brose, Kokutekeleza Musebeni, Beatrix Rinke Cast Kokutekeleza Musebeni, Paula Essam, Nola Essam Original Score Ralph Heidel Sound Design Andrew Mottl film school Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Festivals
2024 Internationale Hofer Filmtage, Germany
2025 Pan African Film & Arts Festival, Los Angeles, USA
School
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • Germany
  • http://www.hff-muc.de
Production
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
  • Kokutekeleza Musebeni
Sales
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
  • Kokutekeleza Musebeni
Distribution
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Tina Janker
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • +49 89 689578510
  • http://www.hff-muc.de

Kokutekeleza Musebeni

Kokutekeleza Musebeni is studying documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich and works as a journalist for the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcaster. Since 2021, she has been a reporter for the ZDF broadcaster's Auslandsjournal #trending.

Filmography
2019 Strong Hair
2021 THE DOOR OF RETURN
2024 The Thoughts of Our Ancestors

Portrait of Kokutekeleza Musebeni