About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks

About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks

20240h 28mmovie

How did peacocks, originally from India, end up on an island in Berlin in the 19th century, and hippopotamuses, a century later, on the banks of a river in Colombia? Their lives there appear to be “happy and free”. With rapturous imagery, Elkin Calderòn Guevara and Johannes Förster’s decolonial fable turns them into wi...

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