In the monthly series Dok-Termin, we show selected documentaries in cooperation with the fsk cinema, followed by discussions with the filmmakers and/or other guests.

On Monday, 30 May, we will show YU GONG by Daniel Kötter. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director.

The documentary and essay film YU GONG documents the complex sino-african relations by travelling through eight countries on the African continent and China, along the different readings of the old Chinese fable of the foolish man Yu Gong, who moved the mountains. Four underlying narratives introduce the idea of Chinafrika: Yu Gong localizes the Chinese policy of free-trade-areas and large construction projects in Africa, the expansion of logistics and infrastructures; the places shaped by a new global bottom-up trade between Africa and the Pearl-River-Delta, and the cultural overlap of sino-african everyday life, traditions and religion.
The film was shot in collaboration with author and curator Jochen Becker on several research trips to PR China, Hong Kong, Tanzania, Zambia, DR Congo, South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Algeria and Ethiopia between 2014 and 2017