‘25. eco competition
[Dutch premiere]2024 | Dominican Republic/Namibia/Germany/France | 122’
by Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
PEPE
Hippos and Pablo Escobar make more sense in one sentence than one might think. The Colombian drug lord imported the animals for leisure, setting in motion one of the strangest wildlife invasions in recent decades. This eccentric docudrama uses the historical consciousness of a hippo as its premise. Dahomey was not the only film at the 2024 Berlinale that exposed power dynamics by literally giving a voice to more-than-human entities.
