New Orleans Film Festival 2021

Doc Shorts: Hidden Portals

Expired November 22, 2021 6:00 AM
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Real and imagined portals connect us through time and place, traversing the vast space between us. These short documentaries explore our yearning to break barriers, travel, connect and imagine new possibilities. 

Two black women meet through a hologram. The year, 2440. The place, Saturn. Racism, sexism and capitalism have been overcome. They are assigned on a mission to travel to Earth, Germany, in the year 2020. Here, the N-word is still uttered, Afro-Germans are invisible and Germanness and Blackness are a contradiction, an error in the system. The Door of Return is an Afro-futuristic documentary, a thought experiment that is both a critique of our present and a vision for the future.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    30 minutes
  • Language
    German
  • Country
    Germany
  • Director
    Koku Musebeni, Anna Zhukovets
  • Screenwriter
    Anna Zhukovets, Kokutekeleza Musebeni
  • Producer
    Lea Neu, Katharina Kolleczek
  • Cinematographer
    Louis Dickhaut, Florian Berwanger
  • Editor
    Denize Galiao
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