Aymar Esse, Director of Locarno Open Doors World Premiere ‘My Father’s Kora,’ Explores the Challenges of Queer Identity in Senegal
“My Father’s Kora” (“La Kora de Mon Père”), a Benin-Switzerland-Germany production, will have its world premiere Aug. 9 at the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors section, which has focused on 42 countries of the African continent since 2025. The film follows Souleymane Everston Adowo Freudenreich, an Afro-German trans man who travels to Dakar, Senegal, to […]
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