{"id":5937,"date":"2023-03-27T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/events\/one-mother-une-mere-film\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T08:46:18","slug":"one-mother-une-mere-film","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/events\/one-mother-une-mere-film\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE MOTHER \/ UNE M\u00c8RE &#8211; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>ONE MOTHER \/ UNE M\u00c8RE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Director: Micka\u00ebl Bandela; DRC \/ France 2022; OmeU; 86 min<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>When director <strong>Micka\u00ebl Bandela<\/strong> was six months old, his biological mother Gis\u00e8le, who lived in France, handed him over to the care of foster mother Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, who looked after him for almost twenty years. Contact with Gis\u00e8le never broke off, but visits remained irregular. Now Micka\u00ebl is 35 and starting his own family. Actually, a perfect time to include Gis\u00e8le in his life as a grandma, too. But she decides to return to her old Congolese homeland. Micka\u00ebl tries to understand &#8211; the woman who brought him into the world, the woman he grew up with, and himself. His autobiographical film becomes a fragmented search for traces of memories of his own becoming. Some sequences show moments of extreme disorientation. A loss of balance while spinning around, you might think?<\/p>\n\n<p>A great documentary that explains the difference between family structures in most African families and those in other countries.<br\/>A very important and often unspoken issue that affects many people born in the Diaspora with African roots.<\/p>\n\n<p>Introduction: <strong>Tutu Westerhoff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Organizer<\/strong>:  <\/h4>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afrikafilmfestivalkoeln.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Film Festival Cologne<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SCDGGermany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITS &#8211; Regional Group Cologne<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SCDGGermany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunflower Communitiy Development Group<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proud-event.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PROUD e. V.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twm-bibliothek.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theodor Wonja Michael Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When director Micka\u00ebl Bandela was six months old, his biological mother Gis\u00e8le, who lived in France, handed him over to the care of foster mother Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, who took care of him for almost twenty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","mec_category":[319],"programmbereich":[],"mec_tag":[432,368,436,434,433],"class_list":["post-5937","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-culture-en","mec_tag-african-history","mec_tag-colonialism","mec_tag-ecology","mec_tag-feminism","mec_tag-liberation-movement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10765,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5937\/revisions\/10765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"programmbereich","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programmbereich?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"mec_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_tag?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}