Image Restitution (Laura Horelli, Hildegard Titus, Mwalengwa Hillebrecht) 2026
“Namibia – the Forgotten Colony” (1976, GDR) was shot clandestinely during South African apartheid occupation in solidarity with Namibia’s most popular liberation movement at the time, SWAPO. It is one of the earliest anti-apartheid solidarity films set in Namibia, but it has never been shown publicly in the country. IMAGE RESTITUTION engages with the 50-year-old film through contemporary Namibian voices, fostering meaningful intergenerational dialogue around memory, trauma, archives and Namibian-German relations.
Below documentation of selected “Namibia – the Forgotten Colony” screenings and IMAGE RESTITUTION work-in-progress screenings.