
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.
- Year2021
- Runtime30 minutes
- LanguageGerman
- CountryGermany
- DirectorKoku Musebeni, Anna Zhukovets
- ScreenwriterAnna Zhukovets, Kokutekeleza Musebeni
- ProducerLea Neu, Katharina Kolleczek
- CinematographerLouis Dickhaut, Florian Berwanger
- EditorDenize Galiao

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.
- Year2021
- Runtime30 minutes
- LanguageGerman
- CountryGermany
- DirectorKoku Musebeni, Anna Zhukovets
- ScreenwriterAnna Zhukovets, Kokutekeleza Musebeni
- ProducerLea Neu, Katharina Kolleczek
- CinematographerLouis Dickhaut, Florian Berwanger
- EditorDenize Galiao