IDFA 2017
We Will Maintain
Festus Toll
Kenya, Netherlands, Belgium
2017
35 min
World Premiere
A child looks into the camera. His Kenyan uncle makes a prediction: a mixed child does not belong to Africa or Europe. Now, twelve years later, the child is a filmmaker in search of the meaning of his uncle’s prophetic words. As he travels from his hometown Helmond to the slums of Nairobi, the birthplace of his mother, from the Bijlmer Bajes prison to Breda where extreme right politician Geert Wilders is campaigning, he discovers that these worlds that are all part of the filmmaker’s life, do no longer communicate with each other, but are separated by fear of the other.
Credits
Director
Festus Toll
Festus Toll
Production
Festus Toll,
Menna Laura Meijer
Festus Toll,
Menna Laura Meijer
Cinematography
Festus Toll
Festus Toll
Editing
Festus Toll
Festus Toll
Sound
Festus Toll
Festus Toll
Sound Design
Festus Toll
Festus Toll
Screenplay
Festus Toll
Festus Toll