Aymar Esse, Director of Open Doors World Premiere ‘My Father’s Kora,’ Discusses Challenges of Queer Cinema in Senegal

“My Father’s Kora” (“La Kora de Mon Père”), a Benin-Switzerland-Germany production, volition person its satellite premiere Aug. 9 astatine Locarno’s Open Doors section, which has focused connected 42 countries of the African continent since 2025. The movie follows Souleymane Everston Adowo Freudenreich, an Afro-German trans antheral who travels to Dakar, Senegal, to repair his father’s […]