Films

This section gives an overview about our films. Unfortunately we cannot show all film online due to film festival regulations.

Nani Kama Mama (Bagamoyo, 2015)

Nani Kama Mama ("No one like mother") is the first collaborative film of the Bagamoyo Film Collective. It is a movie about poverty, self responsibility and street justice in Tanzania. The young man Pesambili lives with his mother in poverty. When his mother becomes seriously ill, Pesambili leaves his village to seek for money for the life saving medicine. On his journey to a little harbour town he meets a storyteller on the marketplace, who tells the children in the neighbourhood an old Tanzanian fairytale. Passing by and listening to the story of a king, a monster and a little boy Pesambili makes a fateful decision.

Cast & Crew
Director/ Producer: Judith Albrecht
Executive Producer: Diana Wintrich, Irina Yilmaz
Camera operator: Thomas Rotsching, Harald Geil
Film editor: Anja Mayer
Soundtrack: Philipo Nandenga
Starring: Dominic Kimbute, Imelder Mboneko Munyaga, Philipo Nandenga, Sagunda Ngulima, Simlis K. Bernhard, Yakobo Yohana, Tricia Robert, Kubunga Leya Kassaja, Emmanuel Mhagama, Stephan Mbadwe, Jovin King Rutha, Boniphace Shenya, Robert S. Mpeka, Mwalimu

Hatua Kwa Hatua (Bagamoyo, 2018)

Hatua Kwa Hatua ("Step by Step") is the second collaborative film of the Bagamoyo Film Collective. It is a film about the relationship and dynamics of environment and everyday life. The film tells the story of Mama K and her husband. He is a fisherman, but he hasn’t found fish for a long time, because of the overfished sea. Mama K becomes the main provider for the family. That leads to conflicts in their relationship. And there is a community theatre group thinking about their next street performance.

Cast & Crew
Director: Judith Albrecht
Lead actors: Levina Mahimbali, Yahaya Shabani
Cast: Wilfried Mwanyika, Samwel Mlawa, Alexander Benjamin Waters Phil Said, Imelder Mboneko Munyaga, Alex Kalemela Abou Mdewele, Hilda Soa, Veronica Aloyce Lyimo Abdully Ramadhan, Ikupa Moses, Mohammed Maeda, Frank Davison
Advisor – Harald Geil
Director of photography – Thomas Rotsching
Second camera assistant – Frank Burilo
First camera assistant – Calvin Lucas Mabuga
Grip – Rodgers Kasamiro
Sound editing – Sven Jensen Brakelmann
Sound – Rodney Machange
Sound – Abednego Kanonora
Film editor – Aline Bonvin
Music soundtrack – Jens Fischer
Executive Producer – Nicholaus Agrey Msami

Tabia (Bagmoyo, 2019)

Tabia (Behaviour) is the third collaborative film of the Bagamoyo Film Collective. A young man celebrates with his friends at a party. The next morning he finds himself in prison and nothing will ever be like it was before. Tabia is a film about friendship and behaviour, crime and a helpless search for the truth.

Cast & Crew
Story and Directing: Judith Albrecht, Malik Said, Imelder Mboneko Munyaga
Starring: John Patrick, Laila Ally Hangrida, Abou Omary Mdewele, Malik Said, Mzoma Chinula, Veronica Haule, Veronica Alyimo, Steven Kamumba, Philipo Nandenga, Imelder Mboneko Munyaga, Dominic P. Mushi, Chrispina C. Nazael
Camera and Light: Harald Geil, Robin Biswalo, Rogers Kasawa, Mabuga Lucas, Javan Matekere, Jackson Mrema, Chrispina C. Nazael
Sound: Sven Jensen Brakelmann, Isdory S. Moshi
Original Score: „Some More“ a song by Philipo Mrish
Editing: Aline Bonvin, Robin Biswalo, Rogers Kasawa, Javan Matekere, Jackson Mrema, Chrispina C. Nazael
Production: Irina Yilmaz, Christoph Marx, Alexander Benjamin Waters
Color Grading: Tom Rotsching
Sound Design: Sven Jensen Brakelmann

Fear and Fever (Tanzania, 2019)

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The film is an athmospheric review of the performance FEAR & FEVER and its events in Tanzania (Bagamoyo festival of arts and culture & Little Theatre Dar es Salaam). Fear and Fever is a performance abotu Malaria. It is inspired by debates about disease, medicine and belief systems. Flinn Works (Berlin) and Asedeva (Dar es Salaam) explore the unequal world of malaria in a theatre-science lab. Clinical studies oscillate with historical reenactments, scientific choreographies and TED talks.

Cast & Crew
Camera, Production and Editing: Mabuga Lucas
Interviewer: Johnny Hendrix
FEAR & FEVER:
Performed by: Isack Peter Abeneko & Konradin Kunze
Produced by: Flinnworks & Asedeva

Mazingira ni Afya (Zanzibar, 2018)

Mazingira ni afya (Environment and Health) is a film about a group of environmental activist from Zanzibar. Provoked by the critical health conditions of a team member the bearable has been exceeded. For which reason the group starts actions against ecological destruction caused by littering waste. Only a clean environment can establish healthy living conditions. But the question remains: how to change peoples behaviour?

Mazingiri ni afya was largely financed by the foundation Freundinnen und Freunde der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and realized in cooperation with Zanzibar Bora Association.

Cast & Crew
Director: Frank K. Bernard, Dominic P. Mushi, Imelder M. Munyaga, Nicholaus M. Agrey
Writer: Bagamoyo Film Collective
Producer: Bagamoyo Film Collective, Zanzibar Bora Association
Cast: Raya Musa Khamis, Tale Kitunge Kabu, Asaal-Her Ally Musa, Ally Said Bakari, Mussa Masunaa, Mohamed Said Ramadhani, Mwajuma Sharifu, Bi Mkubwa Mohamed Haji, Subira O Nassoro, Mohamed Sai (Matofali), Musa Haji Zubery, Shafii Hasan Juma, Umullimweher, Abdalar
Camera: Andrew Eugen
Editor: Andrew Eugen, Mabuga Lucas
Cooperation: Bagamoyo Film Collective, Zanzibar Bora Association
Funding: Freundinnen und Freunde der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Special Thanks: Mohamed Said Mwinchande

Mtazamo (Bagamoyo, 2017)

Nobody can look into a human. People use to smile even though their life is tough. People have dreams. People are left with limited options. Mtazamo is a film about difficult living conditions that hinder talents and dreams which can lead to wrong decisions.

Mtazamo is the directors début of Dominic P. Mushi and Frank K. Bernard. The short film was fully financed by the Bagamoyo Film Collective and realized in cooperation with FURSA Bagamoyo.

Cast & Crew
Director: Dominic P. Mushi and Frank K. Bernard
Camera: Andrew Eugen
Lights: Timotheo Ernest
Editor: Aline Bonvin
Starring: Dominic P. Mushi, Frank K. Bernard, Hilda, Prisca Peter, Erica Hery, Christina Benedictor, Degresia Daniel, Paulina Zawose, Rajuba Issa, Zawadi Matonia, Kamumba, Zuena, Elias Ringo

Umoja (Berlin, 2017)

Umoja is an abstract collage of sequences. The short film deals with questions of togetherness, belonging and empowerment. The film was realised in an encounter between students from TaSuBa College Bagamyo, Freie Universität Berlin and filmArche e.V.

Cast & Crew
Director: Bafico
Camera: Finja Willner, Lea Stein, Dominic P. Mushi, Nicholaus M. Agrey
Prouction: Irina Yilmaz, Diana Wintrich
Sound: Sven Jensen Brakelmann
Editing: Aline Bonvin
Starring: Nicholaus M. Agrey, Simplis K. Bernard, Christina Hensel, Imelder M. Munyaga, Dominic P. Mushi

Visions of Togetherness (Berlin, 2017)

Visions of Togetherness aims to be a participatory „Making-of“ movie. The film follows a transcultural movie production. Students from Tanzania and Germany came together, in a collaborative manner, to develop an ethnofictional story with the focus on „Future Visions“. Resulting in the short film / collage Umoja.

Cast & Crew
Camera: Christoph Marx
Editor: Christoph Marx
Starring: Frank K. Bernard, Dominic P. Mushi, Imelder Mboneko Munyaga, Nicolaus M. Agrey, Irina Yilmaz, Diana Wintrich, Judith Albrecht, Finja Willner, Sven Jensen Brakelmann, Aline Bonvin, Eliane Friess, Lea Stein, Christina Hensel