Sunday Cinema X Black Movie: The Tree of Authenticity

A film series addressing important and current social issues. Auditorium. Sunday 18 January from 4pm to 6pm.

The MEG is partnering with the Black Movie festival for a film whose themes echo those of the ‘Encounters’ exhibition and the permanent exhibition.

The Tree of Authenticity
In Congo, in the second largest forest in the world, the past of a centre dedicated to tropical agriculture reveals in three parts the colonial era and its links to the climate crisis. A powerful analysis through a sumptuous sound and visual meditation.

On the edge of the Congo Basin's primary forest, the second largest in the world, the remains of a research centre dedicated to tropical agriculture reveal in three parts the weight of the colonial past and its links to climate change.
Paul Panda Farnana, an agricultural engineer and the first Congolese civil servant to work for the Belgian administration, Abiron Bernaert, a Flemish man in charge of palm oil production during the Second World War, and a 300-year-old tree that has become a national symbol in the heart of the forest, tell their stories...
A powerful analysis of a piece of Belgium's colonial history, whose climatic consequences are still felt today, through a sumptuous, brilliantly written audio-visual meditation.

Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo - 2025 - Sammy Baloji - 89 min.

Languages: original version with subtitles in French.
In collaboration with the Black Movie festival.