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Idrissou Mora Kpai

Biography

Idrissou Mora-Kpai was born in 1967 in the West African country of Benin and he lived there until completing his Alevels. Following spells living in Algeria and Italy, he moved to Germany where he first studied American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and then film direction at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf from 1994. His first short films included AUSLÄNDER in 1994 and FUGACE in 1996, which

FilmInitiativ presented in 1997. In 2003, Idrissou Mora-Kpai was invited by FilmInitiativ for the first time to attend the festival in Cologne to present his documentary SI-GUERIKI, LA REINE-MÈRE (THE QUEEN MOTHER), which went on to win many awards. The initial idea for the film was to go looking for his polygamous father in Benin, but it developed into a portrait of his two mothers. His documentary ARLIT, THE SECOND PARIS from 2005 about the impact of uranium mining in Niger was screened in Cologne’s Aller-weltskino cinema, and his film INDOCHINA – TRACES OF A MOTHER about African soldiers in the Vietnam war was shown at the 2012 Cologne festival. Idrissou Mora-Kpai has again been invited to attend the 2017 festival to present the results of his documentary-making workshop on the subject of land grabbing that he organised with those affected by the land grabs in Benin.

Filmography

AFRICA FOR SALE / EIN KONTINENT VOR DEM AUSVERKAUF : Guest

Si-Gueriki, la reine-mère (2002): Direction

Indochine (2011): Producer, Direction