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PRODUCTIONLes Films de l’œil sauvage
oeilsauvage.com
CO-PRODUCTION
Universal Grace Production
ugraceprod.tg
www.FB.com/ugraceprod
DISTRIBUTION Germany
Drop-Out Cinema
dropoutcinema.org
info@dropoutcinema.org
Togoland Projections
Togoland Projections
Togoland Projections
Togoland Projections
Togoland Projections
Togoland Projections
Togoland Projections
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World Sales
Co-Production Company
Chausseestr. 17
10115 Berlin
10115 Berlin
Les Films de l’œil sauvage
oeilsauvage.com
CO-PRODUCTION
Universal Grace Production
ugraceprod.tg
www.FB.com/ugraceprod
DISTRIBUTION Germany
Drop-Out Cinema
dropoutcinema.org
info@dropoutcinema.org
Togoland Projections
Synopsis
Shortly before the First World War, the German 'Africa explorer' and film director Hans Schomburgk embarked on an unprecedented film expedition to West Africa to shoot adventure and documentary films in the exotic setting in the north of the then German colony of Togo. To this day, his films remain virtually unknown in Africa.Guided by the report of the actress Meg Gehrts, we travel more than a century later with a mobile cinema to original locations of Schomburgk's film adventures. Together with Togolese viewers, we question the film images regarding their historical background and the effects of colonialism. What do they reveal, what do they conceal about Togoland, which at the time was praised as the 'model colony' of the German Empire? And how will we have to deal with colonial film footage in the future?
Original languages: Ife, French, Tem, Mina, Bassar, Kabiyé, Anufo, Dagbani, sign language (ASL), Konkomba.
Available with German, English, French narration and Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic subtitles.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Director of photography
- Narrator
- Assistant director
- Production assistent
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound
- Sound Design
- Digital Colorist
- other
Festivals/awards
202366th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film / Germany
65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck / Germany
2024
13th Luxor African Film Festival, Al-Uqsur / Egypt:
Special Mention Diaspora Competition
17th MiradasDoc International Documentary Film Festival, Guía de Isora / Spain
47th Grenzland Filmtage International Film Festival, Selb / Germany
9th International Filmfest Bremen / Germany
37th Bolzano Film Festival Bozen / Italy
4th Festival International de Films Identitaires et Solidaires, Nikki / Benin
6th FestIC Festival des Identités Culturelles, Ouagadougou / Burkina Faso
3rd FIFDOPO International Documentary Film Festival, Porto-Novo / Benin:
Special Jury Prize
8th FIFTO International Film Festival, Lomé / Togo
16th FICAA International African Film Festival in Argentina, Córdoba & Buenos Aires
11th ARKIPEL Jakarta Documentary & Experimental Film Festival / Indonesia
4th CINEMANCIA Metropolitano Film Festival, Medellín / Colombia
2nd FICPBA Buenos Aires Province International Film Festival, La Plata / Argentina:
Association of Independent Documentary Film Directors and Producers of Argentina Award for the Best Documentary
29th Portobello Film Festival, London / UK: Nomination Best Documentary
2nd FESCIMONKA Kabyè Mountains Film Festival, Kara / Togo
16th NNW International Film Festival, Gdynia / Poland
3rd Lane Doc Fest, Jackson, Tennessee / USA: Finalist
27th Festival Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire, Blois / France: Grand Prix du projet documentaire historique 2015
20th FICPA International Film Festival, Pasto / Colombia
9th International Film Festival in Nicaragua, Granada
10th ETNOFF International Ethnographic Film Festival, Skopje / North Macedonia
24th Festival Lumières d'Afrique, Besançon / France
23rd Čadca International Biennial Festival of Ethnological Film, Bratislava / Slovakia
13th African Film Festival Augen Blicke Afrika, Hamburg / Germany
2nd Sorbonne Nouvelle University Festival Focus Germany, Paris / France
39th BICB Black International Cinema Berlin / Germany: Special Acknowledgment
12th Jagran Film Festival, New Delhi / India
6th FICA Festival Internacional de Cine Austral, Ciudad de Córdoba / Argentina:
Awards for Outstanding Feature Film, Outstanding Production Design
20th International Human Rights Film Festival, Sucre / Bolivia
2025
23rd Dhaka International Film Festival / Bangladesh
9th SANFICI Santander International Independent Film Festival / Colombia
20th MICE International Ethnographic Film Fest, Santiago de Compostela / Spain
3rd DOC.Coimbra International Documentary Film Festival, Coimbra / Portugal
15th I-Represent International Documentary Film Festival, Lagos / Nigeria
4th DOCLUANDA International Documentary Film Festival, Luanda / Angola
20th ILFF International Labor Film Festival, Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Diyarbakır / Turkey
19th AIFF Addis International Film Festival, Addis Ababa / Ethiopia
World Sales
Co-Production Company
Chausseestr. 17
10115 Berlin
10115 Berlin
Cast & Crew
Jürgen EllinghausJürgen Ellinghaus
Rémi Jennequin
Jürgen Ellinghaus, Manuela Weichenrieder
Nassirou Saliou
Patrick Ayele-Yawou
Nina Khada
Caled Boukari
Anders Wasserfall
Arno Schumann
Antoine Evolasi (Assistant of DoP), Dieu-Donné Tchani (Sound Assistant)
