IF 20|21

Life on the Horn
Mo Harawe
Team
Rafael Haider
Fiction
It has been over the course of several decades
that Europeans, above all the former
colonial power Italy – have been dumping
illegal toxic garbage in the ocean at the
Horn of Africa, allegedly in exchange for
arms shipments to local warring parties.
Since the 2004 earthquake and subsequent
tsunami devastated the region, the Somali
coastal area is contaminated. The film tells
this story elliptically, near wordlessly, finding
precise and highly sensitive images to
register this chronic violence – in gazes,
gestures, landscapes.
Mo Harawe *1992 Mogadishu Somalia
Films (selection) 1947 (2020 short f) Die
Geschichte vom Eisbär, der nach Afrika wollte
(2018 short f) Ein letztes Mal (2016 short f)
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Mo Harawe
Fiction
Werner has been working 20 years as a
sales person for the Mandl printing company
and feels he is not adequately challenged.
The past few months he has been
attending a course on team-building and
mediation where he believes he has discovered
his calling. At the Mandl company
he now sees unresolved conflicts and inefficient
team-work everywhere he looks. He
convinces his boss Alice to allow him to
organize a collective team-building weekend.
Creating more conflicts than it solves,
the weekend culminates in a struggle for
survival.
Rafael Haider *1989 Oberndorf Austria
Films (selection) Das erste und das letzte Mal
(2018 short d) Esel – Carry on (2015 short f)
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Rafael Haider