SPECULATIONS, an Afrofuturism film showcase
Sight (Janeen Talbott, 2017, US, 16 min)
Set in a parallel earth, Sight is about a nonbeliever named Naji who must make the ultimate sacrifice to save her tribe when supernatural forces bring a dark truth to light.
The Golden Chain (Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels, 2016, US, 14 min)
Made by former Chicagoans animator Adebukola Bodunrin and graphic novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels, The Golden Chain is a speculative science fiction tale set in the distant future. A Nigerian space station in a remote corner of the galaxy orbits an artificial pinpoint of matter so dense it cannot exist in our solar system. It is a recreation of the birth of the universe itself, contained for the purpose of study, and overseen by Yetunde, sole crew member on the space station Eko.
Hasaki ya suda (Cédric Ido, 2010, France, 24 min)
It is 2100. In a world engulfed in chaos and war, whose residents are consumed by terrible hunger, the last fertile land becomes the subject of fierce battles. Three warriors—the noble Wurubenba, Shandaru, who wants to avenge his father’s death, and power-craving Kapkaru—will face one another in a fight for life and death.
Twagga (Cédric Ido, 2013, France, 30 min)
Burkina Faso, in 1985. Manu, an eight-year-old boy, has no friends. He clings to his older brother Albert and to his two friends, Kaboré and Ibou, non-stop . When Albert is marabouted to become invincible, Manu realizes that in real life there exists the powers which can compete with those of the super hero whose adventures he reads in comic strips