Examining two catastrophes: Germany and Sierra Leone

OneWorld UK

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL.
BFM FILM CLUB
THE LION MOUNTAINS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SIERRA LEONES HISTORY
Sierra Leone is rich in natural resources, yet today its recorded to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Louis Buckley a 25-year-old Jamaican English man arrives in Sierra Leone while its recovering from an 11-year civil war. He heads out to discover the countrys past first hand offering a unique narrative and perspective.

Interspersed with an urban hip-hop & reggae fused soundtrack and stunning visuals of the landscape The Lion Mountains looks at pre-colonial Sierra Leone; the beginning of European and African trade; the effect of Western imperialism and colonial rule, questioning how the country got to this point?
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director Louis Buckley.
Dir: Louis Buckley, Year?, UK, 54 min, subs, cert: PG

BFM FILM CLUB
BLACK SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST:
This unique film uncovers the torture and murder of Black Germans in the Third Reich through a profoundly distressing experience in Nazi concentration camps. Piecing together experiences of the survivors and the descendants of victims, together with never seen before archive materials, Moise's film documents a moving, if brutal, tale of medical experiments involving sterilisation, torture and gruesome death in the concentration camps.
Until recently, few would have even believed that Blacks and mixed-race people lived in Hitler's Germany let alone underwent the horrors which some, luckily, survived to tell in the film. It is a revelation that shattered the conspiratorial silence of the German authorities.
The film has been shown in more than twenty countries and won four international awards including the 1997 New York Festivals Unesco Award.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Producer Moise Shewa.
This programme is being held in conjunction with the Young Professional Cameroonian Network.
Dir: David Okuefuna, 62 mins, subs