Film
Si-Gueriki, la reine mère/Si-Gueriki, The Queen Mother | Besida
D: Idrissou Mora-Kpai, FR,BJ 2002, 62 min., Bariba and French OV with English subtitles | D: Chuko Esiri, NG 2018, 12 min., Urhobo OV with English subtitles
Information on accessibility
10 pm Besida
10.15 pm Si-Gueriki (the director will be present)
Evening ticket 18€/14€
(2 concerts & film)
Film only 6€/4€
Portrait of a fascinating village matriarch in Benin | Sibling love and the call of the big city in Nigeria
Si-Gueriki, la reine mère/Si-Gueriki, The Queen Mother
D: Idrissou Mora-Kpai, FR,BJ 2002, 62 min., Bariba and French OV with English subtitles
After his father’s death, Idrissou Mora-Kpai returns from Europe to his childhood village in Benin. The film contrasts the harsh village patriarchy of the Wassangari ethnic group with his mother’s intriguing personality. At the time, she seemed rather foreign and insignificant to him as one of his father’s many wives, in the meantime she had been crowned Queen Mother...
Besida
D: Chuko Esiri, NG 2018, 12 min., Urhobo OV with English subtitles
In Nigeria, they say, “When the fish die, there’s only the city.” When Besida announces she’s heading to Lagos with the shady Tega, her brother is determined to stop her...
