Neptune FrostFilm

Ruanda / USA 2021, Regie: Saul Williams/Anisia Uzeyman, 105 Min, OmU

(english version below)

Matalusa flieht aus der Coltan-Mine, wo er für die Herstellung von Handys nach Mineralien graben muss und entkommt in die Hügel von Burundi zu einem antikolonialistischen Hacker-Kollektiv. Hier trifft er auf Neptune, eine*n intersexuelle*n Hacker*in. Von einer überirdisch wirkenden Elektroschrott-Müllhalde aus versuchen sie, das autoritäre Regime zu stürzen, das die natürlichen Ressourcen der Region – und deren Menschen – ausbeutet.

Matalusa flees the coltan mine where he is forced to dig up minerals for cell phones and escapes into the hills of Burundi to join an anti-colonial hacking collective, where he meets the intersexual hacker Neptune. Operating from an e-waste dump, they seek to overthrow the authoritarian regime that is exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. Realized exclusively with a cast and crew from Rwanda and Burundi, the queer sci-fi punk musical deals with almost all pressing issues of our time. In their brightly colored afro-futuristic vision, the multidisciplinary artists Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams combine a visually and musically breathtaking melange of costumes and sets, ideas and songs. (Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English with German subtitles)

https://cinematheque-leipzig.de/programm/filme/neptune-frost/