“In Search…” will be screened at the “Filmfest Frauenwelten – Filmfestival Women Worlds” in Tübingen (Germany) on Nov. 26th 2019 @ 18:00 in presence of Beryl Magoko


Film by / Film von Beryl Magoko & Jule Katinka Cramer – 90 min documentary
“In Search…” will be screened at the “Filmfest Frauenwelten – Filmfestival Women Worlds” in Tübingen (Germany) on Nov. 26th 2019 @ 18:00 in presence of Beryl Magoko

“In Search…” will be screened at Biberacher Filmfestspiele on 2.11. and 3.11.19 in Biberach (Germany) in presence of Beryl Magoko.
“In Search…” will be screened at the Carthage Film Festival (JCC) in Tunis on 28.10, 29.10 and 30.10.19 in presence of Beryl Magoko.
… In Search… is a touching inquiry into past loss and how we regain ourselves, about the relief of lifting taboos and questioning the rationality of our own realities (even when it seems dangerous to do this), and about the complexity of family life and relationships between women living under a patriarchy.
Anna Dannreuther in “the f word”

“In Search…” will be screened at AFRIFF –
Africa International Film Festival (Nigeria) 10. – 16.11.19
in presence of Beryl Magoko
“In Search…” will be screened at the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto (Canada) on October 12th @ 18:00 in presence of Beryl Magoko.
Yesterday evening (21.9.19) “In Search…” received the Documentary Film Award at the Festival International du Film de Femmes de Salé / Morrocco.

Seit gestern Abend ist das Porträt über Beryl Magoko, das letzten Sonntag in der FAS publiziert wurde, nun auch im Internet frei zugänglich.
Since yesterday evening, the portrait of Beryl Magoko, which was published (in German) last Sunday in the FAS, is now also freely available on the Internet.
… La directora kenyana habla de ella misma, de su tierra, de sus orígenes, de sus tradiciones, y lo hace desde una sinceridad apabullante, mirándonos de frente, siendo fiel a sus emociones, a todo lo pasado y todo lo que le pasa, describiendo con minuciosidad todas las emociones contradictorias que experimenta durante la película, como ese instante impagable donde el encuentro con su madre en Kenya en la que las dos mujeres hablan a tumba abierta sobre lo ocurrido, donde existía la presión religiosa, cuando es una práctica de iniciación que nació antes de la llegada de la religión, y la presión social, un diálogo entre madre e hija que resume toda la intención de la película,…
By JOSÉ A. PÉREZ GUEVARA on https://242peliculasdespues.com/
In Search received the award of the “STZ – Leserjury” at the German Dokumentary award (Deutscher Dokumentarfilm Preis) / SWR Doku Festival on 28.06.19 in Stuttgart
“In Search…” will – in conjunction with the nomination for “Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis” – be screened at the SWR >> DOKU FESTIVAL (in Stuttgart, Germany) on 27.6.19 @ 12:00 in presence of Beryl Magoko.
© Picture by SWR>> DOKU FESTIVAL
“In Search…” is the winner of the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival (NY) “Nestor Almendros award for courage in filmmaking”.
https://ff.hrw.org/film/search?city=New%20York

© Foto by Andreas Frowein
… In that emotional silence, occasionally interrupted by a palpable sense of loss and hurt, the tragedy of mutilated women is louder than bombs. It’s not only the personal bravery of Magoko that is impressive here: the fact that she has made such a personal documentary with so much elegance, precision and class also deserves high praise.