AFRICAN FAMILY DINNER
Genre
Comedy and Drama
Running time
13 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Norwegian and Twi
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Norway, Sudan and Somalia
Director
Ibrahim Mursal
Bio
Producer
Geir Bergersen
Cast
Mathilde Storm, Tani Dibasey, Koame Sereba, Kim Fairchild, Bridget Dery, Taume Dery, Amalie Sasha Schanke
Scriptwriter
Tani Dibasey
SHOWTIME
Tue
10.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 3
3:15 PM - 4:52 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Wed
11.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 2
6:45 PM - 8:22 PM
Price: 40 SAR
When Mikhael brings his giggling Norwegian girlfriend Mona to meet his Ghanaian family for the first time, he is convinced they will embrace her. Things start badly, however, when Mikhael’s mother brings out a lasagna – “white people’s food”, as an auntie at the table sneers – but go from bad to worse when Mona greets everyone in Swahili – not their language – and tries to entertain everyone with a frantic pan-African dance. She couldn’t get it more excruciatingly wrong if she tried.
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