My Father's Kora (2026)

Souleymane, a Black German trans man, leaves Berlin for Dakar with one mission: to restore his late father's kora. But as he stitches the ancient instrument back together, he finds himself unraveling and rebuilding his own fractured identity. This is a tender, intimate odyssey where needle and thread meet the Atlantic tide, where ancestry, craft, and belief quietly converge—a delicate quest to make peace between the body he lives in and the soul he's still learning to heal.