The festival teams up with Africa is/in the Future for a film night around this year’ theme from the Mothership and its echoes with Afrofuturism. Introduced by Marie Umuhoza, two films will be presented: I FELT IT INSIDE OF (ME) by the young Brussels director Ange Mukunde (2025), and The Last Angel of History by John Akomfrah (1996). Guided by Umuhoza, the public will be offered philosophical context and tools to decipher the symbolics of Afrofuturist referred to in these movies.
Africa is/in the Future explores contemporary Afro-diasporic and African futurology in Brussels. It was launched in 2016 by Dany Ben Félix and Guillaume Maupin at Cinéma Nova as a programme of African science fiction films and has since quickly become an unmissable multidisciplinary initiative in Brussels. Since 2023, Marie Umuhoza, artistic director of the festival, and Mylène Lauzon, director of La Bellone, designed AI/ITF specifically with the performing arts in mind and developed it within La Bellone.