Grada Kilomba
Director
Movies3
MovieDocumentaryAn Afro-Brazilian filmmaker and a Swiss-Serbian photographer embark on a personal and political journey to confront the colonial mindset that still shapes relationships in today’s world. From Brazil, one of the most unequal countries marked by structural racism, to Switzerland, one of the richest and most privileged nations, they face uncomfortable questions: how can a Black woman thrive in a society built on racism? And how do you decolonize the mind when you’ve grown up surrounded by privilege? In search of answers, they dive into transformative conversations with inspiring voices around the world, while reflecting on their own contradictions, complicities, and hopes.
- MovieDocumentary
"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images. The film-maker Filipa César, invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the images and their history, questioning what these film archive mean in a post-African liberation world.
Conakry
2013
- MovieDocumentary
A theatre reading about the Maji Maji uprising in the former German East Africa reveals that colonial, racist patterns of thought still dominate in Germany today. Philippa Ébené, Grada Kilomba and others linked to the production all get to have their say.