Neptune Frost dir. by Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, Rwanda, USA, 2021 (1 hour 45 minutes)

An Afrofuturist fantasy and thus a thrilling sci-fi punk musical is set in the peaks of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist hacker collective. From their camp on an unearthly e-waste dump, they attempt to take on an authoritarian regime exploiting the region’s natural resources and its people. Neptune Frost is an invigorating and imaginative work, an anti-capitalist allegory and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political purposes. The story unfolds between multiple states of being – past and present, dream and waking, colonised and free.