Sleeping Sickness

The Metropolis Association and the Goethe Institute in Beirut have the pleasure to screen the last film of the season’s cine-club dedicated to the contemporary German cinema : “German Currents – New films from Germany”.

Sleeping Sickness tells the story of Ebbo and Vera Velten who have been living in Africa for a long time, where Ebbo is managing a sleeping sickness program. Ebbo loves his life and his work, while Vera feels uncomfortable in the expat community of Yaoundé and after being separated from her daughter Helen, 14, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo has to give up his life in Africa if he doesn’t want to lose the women he loves. But he has become a stranger to Europe, and his fear of returning home increases from day to day. Years later, Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. He hasn’t been to Africa for a long time, but instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man: like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.

Please note that the film is in French with English subtitles.

5,000 LL