Closing film: Whites in Papua New Guinea

Sunday June 14 | 7.00 hrs

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Gina’s Wedding
International premiere

‘Gina's Wedding’ is a film about inter-cultural relationships, a love story between Gina, a young German woman and Napamogona, a native village in Papua New Guinea. The village has decided to host Gina's wedding with Mark, her fiancé. For Gina, Napamogona has become a loved place where she wants to celebrate her marriage. For her adoption father and chief of the village the wedding is an opportunity to assure his authority, reaffirm the social cohesion among the clans in the village and to enter it into modernity. The film describes how love can become the basis of collective human organization.

Martin Maden (Papua New Guinea) | Papua –New Guinea | 2009 | 52 min | Tok Pisin, Bena, German and English spoken, English subtitles