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Journey of the Hyena Touki Bouki

Djibril Diop Mambéty / Senegal / 1973 / 88 min / Wolof

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a student, dream of a better future abroad. They would like to go to Paris, but their wish distances them more and more from their surroundings. Because of their increasing longing to leave, they begin to search for quick and unconventional sources of income, which takes them on an unpredictable path that challenges both their values and desires.

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With its striking jump cut editing, primal sounds and rough footage, the film brutally and genuinely depicts Dacar and the life there. Kinotrip’s screening upon the film’s fiftieth anniversary.

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»The characters of Touki Bouki are interesting to me because their dreams are not those of ordinary people. Anta and Mory do not dream of building castles in Africa; they dream of finding some sort of Atlantis overseas. Following their dream permitted me to follow my own dreams, and my way of escaping those dreams was to laugh at them. Mory and Anta’s dreams made them feel like foreigners in their own country. So they were marginalized people, in that respect.«
–  Djibril Diop Mambéty

»I was captivated by the film because it is something completely different from any other film I have ever seen. The way the scenes were sequenced gave me the feeling of a narrative, like reading a book with a lot of metaphors. Now I understand why the director says he imagines his creative muse as "an African grandmother who can tell stories like any grandmother under the moonlight". Film from Africa is also a novelty for me. It was extremely interesting for me to walk through the film in a foreign country that we may not see on screen very often. And even though the film is 50 years old, it is still relevant for our generation, because it shows aspects of youth: love, rebellion, dreaming of a better world, freedom and what we would do for it.«    
–  Mija Kolarič, member of the 8th Kinotrip generation

The film was restored in 2008 by the World Cinema Foundation in cooperation with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s family. The restoration was conducted at the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. The funds were provided by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways and Qatar Museum Authority.

Thursday, 25. 05. 2023

8th International Kinotrip Film Festival

Between October 19 and 21: three eventful days of films, talks with guests, mingling and fun – all selected and prepared by the young programme team. Tickets already in sale!

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Flow Straume

Gints Zilbalodis

Sunday, 10. 08. 2025 / 17:00 / Main Hall

Cat is a solitary animal. However, as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In this lonesome boat sailing through mystical flooded landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world. »A survival epic full of mysteries and magic, it’s an animated epic worthy of Ghibli.« – Time Out. »One of the most moving animated films in recent memory, and, beyond that, groundbreaking too.« – IndieWire. Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

Parthenope Parthenope

Paolo Sorrentino

Sunday, 10. 08. 2025 / 19:00 / Main Hall

Born in the 1950s in the sea in front of her home villa, Parthenope seeks happiness in the long summers of her youth and falls in love with her native Naples and its many picturesque characters. Paolo Sorrentino has created a seductive epic about a modern heroine’s journey beyond “great beauty” and “youth”.

Vermiglio Vermiglio

Maura Delpero

Monday, 11. 08. 2025 / 18:30 / Main Hall

A quietly moving, beautifully shot pastoral drama by an Italian director that takes place in four chapters set in the four seasons. Grand Jury Prize in Venice.