«Olowe und ich» (Olowe and I)
Short Documentary, 2019
His first “Olowe" was a fake, but by then art dealer Jean David had already fallen in love with the Yoruba artist Olowe of Ise (1875 - 1938). He absolutely had to have a genuin piece of art and set off to find it. However, how can one distinguish between „real“ and „fake“ art in African Art? David takes us onto a journey into an unknown universe full of beauty and contradictions.
- 7th CLUJSHORTS - INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Cluj Napoca, Romania)
- 14th HOBOKEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Greenwood, NY, USA)
- 7th ALTAN KHALIS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
- 10th PORTO 7 - OPORTO INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Oporto, Portugal)
- 6th INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF IERAPETRA & AWARDS (Official Selection, Crete, Greece)
- 4th CANAL DE PANAMA INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Panamá, Panama)
- 1st WEST EUROPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - FUSION ISFF (Official Selection, Brussels, Belgium)
- 4th CIUDAD DEL ESTE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay)
- 3rd GREAT MESSAGE INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Pune, Maharashtra, India)
- 39th „AUTUMN AT VORONET” FILM, DIAPORAMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Gura Humora, Romania)
- 3rd BOLTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Bolton, UK)
- 1st East Europe International Film Festival: Warsaw Edition 2019 (Official Selection, Warsaw, Poland)
- 22nd FALUDI FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Budapest, Hungary)
- 21st MADURAI INT'L DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Madurai, India)
- 8th CHENNAI INT'L DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Chennai, India)
- 15th POPPY JASPER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Morgan Hill, CA, USA)
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