{
  "id": 253928,
  "title": "Aymar Esse, Director of Locarno Open Doors World Premiere ‘My Father’s Kora,’ Explores the Challenges of Queer Identity in Senegal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/aymar-esse-director-of-locarno-open-doors-world-premiere-my-fathers",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-07T05:58:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/my-fathers-kora-locarno-open-doors-ayeman-aymar-esse-1236829086/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}