Orisha Devotion in Berlin
Tuesday 24.09.2019 7:30pm | Saal
Admission: 5,- EUR
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen
Production
Movie Premiere
Director: Ricardo Bacallao
Documentary, 60 minutes, 2019
English subtitles
Producers: Werkstatt der Kulturen, BACALAOfilms
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Orishas devotion in Berlin, has its focus on the Brazilian community in Berlin who practice Candomble at the first Candomble House in Germany founded by Murah Soares, and on their collaboration with Cubans in their rituals and performance. The film tries to explore the beginning of this practice in Germany. It shows the meaning of the principals Orishas or the practice of the Ifa’s Oracle, also the film explores the situation of the religion intolerance in Brazil and how they feel entirely accepted in Berlin. They are allowed to perform openly in any place in the city. In resume the film is a celebration of these African practices in Berlin as Cubans and Brazilians want to keep it alive under any circumstance.
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"The film was Philippa Ebéné´s idea, the director of the Werkstatt der Kulturen. She knew my previous work but overall she knew my close approaching with Santeria: I grew up in Cuba with that among the Marxist ideology as mandatory. So she asked me to work on this documentary as the beginning of a series of documentaries about minority communities who practice their own religion such as Sikhism, in this case Candomble and Santeria, Brazilian and Cuban popular religions with strong elements of African religion that mix with the Catholic religion. It has been more than a year now that I have been working on this documentary, I really feel that we have done a good version on this deep and ancient practice. When I started I took for granted many things that were familiar to me, but as in any serious documentary I double checked every element that shows up in the film. I realized in this process, that my knowledge on this matter was superficial and filtered for the pass of the time, with mediations of prejudice and ignorance. So, one of my big gain here is learning things on my roots from Africa, things that have premeditatedly tried to erase their origins." (Ricardo Bacallao) |
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