INDIGO

INDIGO is an afro-surrealist poetic visual voyage depicting the ethereal beauty of Black hair. The film follows two black German womxn and their different views on identity. With an open narrative structure partly based on poetry, the story eventually solidifies in a hair braiding ritual that offers healing through the transmission of ancestral knowledge.

The film‘s artistic research is based on traditional African hair braiding rituals and the color indigo as a symbol for diasporic life. INDIGO was made by a group of black & brown filmmakers, mothers and female-identifying individuals in all key positions.

A conversation between the diaspora and the continent, tradition and the contemporary, past and future, INDIGO is a statement rather than a story: to be black and German is a reality and not a utopia.

INDIGO won the Special Prize at the International Short Film Festival Berlin and the 2nd Place at Monologues & Poetry International Film Fest, USA in 2023.