Belgium, Portugal, Hungary and Tanzania / 2021 / 11mins / Experimantal / Animation / Swahili and English

This memory trip of juvenile sentiments recalls the filmmaker's time at a colonial legacy boarding school. Though high school can be fun and memorable for some, Neema compares her teenage years to her peers' and finds odd differences. The rules she followed in school under the umbrella of "suffer now, enjoy later" make no sense these days. To revisit those times, Neema recreates her memories using collage. She lays down the absurd, the silly, and the sometimes unforgivable, interrogating it with her present self.

Neema Ngelime

Neema is a photographer and filmmaker. With a Master's degree from DocNomads, a mobile documentary filmmaking school, she focuses primarily on domestic work, colonial legacies, spirituality, and class struggles within the African diaspora in Lisbon, Budapest, and Brussels. She is keen on making films and photos that capture the magic of the mechanical nature of the everyday with an experimental and feminist lens. Learn More