Yurugu - Invisible Lines

  • Yurugu - Lignes invisibles
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2026
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 43 (in minutes)

Rooted in the wisdom of ancestral ecology, the experimental essay film journeys through the fractured terrain left by the colonial dismemberment of inter-being relations - between cultures, between humans and non-humans, between the visible and the unseen. The Berlin Conference of 1885, a spectral wound in our shared memory, marks one of the sharpest incisions in this long dislocation. Yurugu - Invisible Lines evokes the gift of re-membering what was dismembered by the colonial project. Through dreamscapes, ritualised practices of sharing and ancestral rhythms, it renders visible the invisible lines that once held communities and ecosystems in sacred balance. Disorienting the colonial gaze, the film offers a multiplicity of textures and temporalities as a process of healing - inviting a recoding of aesthetics and storytelling rooted in cosmologies of care, reciprocity and continuity.



Film by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo (Director), Laurent Van Lancker (Director)

*Selected for the Berlinale 2026

Partenaires

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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