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Film Director Barbara Kowa’s “Dreaming in Mali” Wins Best Feature Film

Film director Barbara Kowa’s “Dreaming in Mali” wins the Texas Black Film Festival Best Feature Film award. In “Dreaming in Mali,” Barbara Kowa and Markus Schaller (Berlin) travel to Mali using art as a means of communication.

If it is true that art can be a universal language, can artists from totally different worlds and cultural backgrounds work together? In this enthralling documentary film, two visual and performing artists from Germany travel to remote villages in Mali – to co-create works of art with the villagers that fuse together traditional techniques of music, dance, singing, smelting ore, and blacksmithing. The results are truly amazing, reflecting the harmonious blending of two cultural perspectives. 2010; 84 min. In Bambra and German, subtitled.