Diaspora Mixtapes – Film screening

Diaspora Mixtapes Vol.1 is an art house documentary that portraits artists, activists. entrepreneurs’ and intellectuals living in the African diaspora. The film was shot in Johannesburg, Bergen, Stolzenhagen, Negril and Helsinki in 2019. 

The portraits consist of autobiographies and personal narratives that celebrate the diversity of black cultural identity in the contemporary African Diaspora. The film features Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Rebekka “Yeboyah” Kuukka, Maryan Abdulkarim, Joy Mariama Smith, Isaac Sene and Adri Mena.

Diaspora Mixtapes vol. 2: After We Are Gone is the second part of the series. The short film will premiere in autumn 2022. Using the narrative conventions of magical realism, the film is a landscape of rhythms, visions and fantasies. The protagonist enters an underground shrine to meet the royal priestess and re-visits her ancestral past.