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Emails to My Little Sister

2018 / 35 minutes

Directed by: Solomon Mekonen

Anthropologist: Solomon Mekonen

Country of production: Germany

Series: Decolonising Shorts

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An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of the Mediterranean and a sister south of it discover what that relationship entails and how it affects and shapes their lives.

This film is part of the collected DVD entitled "Decolonising". Please click on the "Decolonising shorts" button above for the complete list of films included in the collection.

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Language and subtitles: Original version with English subtitles

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Region: Western Europe North and Northeast Africa

Country: Germany; Ethiopia

Keywords: Migration Race / Racism / Antiracism Colonialism / Postcolonialism Reflexivity

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