THE REVOLUTION DEVOURS ITS CHILDREN!

2014: A director travels with her ensemble to Burkina Faso, where they get caught up in a revolution. She plunges into protests against the autocratic long-term president and falls into the delusion of staging the political turmoil herself. The film questions the Western export of ideas and values "to Africa" and turns this perspective around. Christoph Schlingensief has expressed his special relationship to Burkina Faso with the idea of the opera village. He coined the credo "to learn from Africa". We ask: can we learn revolution?