Introduction by Sheila Leoneli from Salam

Short film program Loud and Proud

Screening of Neptune Frost

2021 | 19 min | language: Norwegian with Norwegian subtitles

Loud and Proud is a series of five short portraits produced by Arthur Xavier Wonder and Lara Okafor from Salam and in collaboration with Mental Helse Ungdom. The project highlights the queer voices of Mabell, Maruwa, Keyse, Sam and Stephen. The aim is to highlight role models for others who break norms concerning whiteness, gender and sexuality. The short film program connects Neptune Frost to our own local environment.

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2021 | 105 min | directed by Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams | language: Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English with English subtitles

In this modern African (cult) film classic, Neptune is reborn at the age of 23 and breaks away from her upbringing in Burundi, which is based on mining coltan for the global technology industry. In the next step, Neptune and their allies cross the thresholds between parallel realities and make the world's digital technology their own. The film is a visually captivating and abstract journey open to interpretation and a strong political statement all in one, both about global power and gender.

The film is directed by Anisia Uzeyman (b. 1975) and Saul Williams (b. 1972). Anisia Uzeyman is a filmmaker and actress born and raised in Rwanda. This is her fifth film. Saul Williams is an artist from New York with a long and recognized career in the independent hip-hop scene, who has performed several times in Oslo. Neptune Frost has slowly begun to take over the world and had its regular cinema premiere in the US and England in the summer of 2022. In that context, Neil Kulkarni stated in The Wire: "It's a film I'm still reeling from, because like any masterpiece, it's less about the answers it gives than the questions it raises."

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The event is part of the film series MY VOICE YOU CAN'T HEAR / DEN STEMMEN DU VIL IKKE HØRE put together on the occasion of Queer Culture Year 2022. The series focuses on narratives that challenge gender norms seen from different geopolitical contexts. It is curated by Hanan Benammar and Brynjar Bjerkem for the art producer TrAP and has been made in collaboration with Salam, a voluntary organization that promotes an inclusive and safe environment for LGBTQI+ people with a Muslim background in Norway, as well as the screening venues the National Museum, AMIFF in Harstad and the cinematheques in Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø.

This screening is a collaboration with Kunstnernes Hus Cinema.