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Aloe Vera

A village has become deeply divided over which came first: the chicken or the egg. Aloewin from one camp and Veralin from the other fall in love anyway. That is a huge hassle.

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

Aloe Vera

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? In a once peaceful community, this discussion got so out of hand that the people decided to establish a permanent border in their village, with all belonging to "team chicken" living on the blue side and the "egg believers" on the yellow side. No one is allowed to cross the line. Meanwhile, Aloewin and Veralin fall in love. There is just one problem: he lives on the blue side, she on the yellow. Their longing to be together is so great, however, that they meet secretly outside the village's borders. When their parents, also the leaders of both camps, discover what is going on, the fat is in the fire.

In this romantic film, Ghanaian director Peter Sedufia, who also wrote the screenplay, adds an original twist to the old story of Romeo and Juliet. His message is as simple as it is universal: love doesn't recognize borders.

This film can be seen at the following venues:

Rialto De Pijp: Saturday August 21 at 21.45h and Saturday August 28 at 19.00h.

Rialto VU: Thursday August 26 at 20.30h.

LantarenVenster: Sunday August 22 at 19.00h. Click here for tickets for this screening.

Bijlmerbios: Sunday September 5.

WCA & Cinedans present: Baloji shorts

In collaboration with Cinedans we present a beautiful short film by Baloji before the main film:

Peau de chagrin - Bleu de nuit
Baloji | Congo, België | 2018 | 10' | French, Lingala spoken | English subtitles
A spirited music video by Baloji presenting traditional wedding rituals of Congolese pygmies. "I see music in colours," Baloji says. "I have synaesthesia and I perceive music on a sensory level." Baloji's mystical video clip belongs to his album '137 Avenue Kamiana'.

Baloji will be our special guest during the screening of this film on August, 21.

PETER SEDUFIA (1985, Ghana) is a director and writer who studied at the National Film and Television Institute in Ghana. His short The Traveller won the Special Jury Prize at the Pan African Film Festival in 2015, and was followed by features Keteke (2017), Sidechic Gang (2018) and Aloe Vera (2020). For Aloe Vera, Sedufi a and his production company Old Film Productions built a community in Ghana.

Baloji (1978) is a Belgian-Congolese rapper, songwriter and a film and music video director. In the 1990s he had his breakthrough as MC Balo with the band Starflam. He has been performing as a solo artist since 2004. "Baloji" means "man of science" in Swahili.