Fiston Mwanza Mujila is Poet in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the season 26/27 and a part of the Afrofuturist music theater Sunville at the Tischlerei. He has chosen Neptune Frost as his film for the At the Movies series.

In the hills of Burundi, a group of displaced coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist hacker collective. From their camp in a surreal-looking electronic waste dump, they attempt to overthrow the authoritarian regime that exploits the region’s natural resources—and its people. When an intersex runaway and a fugitive coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection triggers disruptions in the overarching divine circuitry.

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Unlimited is taking the opera to the cinema: At one of the auditoriums at delphi Lux, artists whom we are meeting this opera season will show their secret favourite films, guilty pleasures or cinematic inspirations in the context of opera productions – and will personally present them. All in line with our season motto Make Love…