CINEMAVERSE: TRANSIT

Christian Petzold Germany 2019 101 min When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author. Stuck in Marseiles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband – the very man he is impersonating. Director Christian Petzold has brought this story by Anna Seghers into nowadays time. Cinemaverse, a project by the Goethe-Institut Namibia, will throughout the course of 2020 screen art-house films from in and out of Africa. Curated by well-known and multi-talented filmmakers, Florian Schott and Nocks Chatiza, the selection of films were created by independent production companies. Cinemaverse will expose viewers in Namibia to a genre with great potential.