The journey of the afro-german Mo Asumang started when she first heard the song that called for her murder “This bullet is for you, Mo Asumang” sang by the Neonaziband “White Aryan Rebels”. Instead of hiding Mo was driven by her desire to overcome her fears and to find out where this hate against Migrants and where Racism comes from. So she took her courage in both hands and meets Neonazis. She meets them in a prison as well as surrounded by 3000 Neonazis at a Nazirally and make a historical interview with Jürgen Rieger, one of the leaders of the rightwing scene. An intimate look into her family History makes clear how deep racism has already touched the lifes of her German Mother and Ghanaian Father.

On her search for Identity, Mo even follows the advice of the Neonazis to “Go back where you came from!” But in Ghana she is seen as a white person.

Roots Germania is a riskily Roadmovie between questioning pseudo-germanic ideas of right wing populists and finding Identity and self-confidence as a AFRO - GERMAN.

In the end Mo dares the confrontation with the leader of the Neonaziband.
Adolf Grimme Award Nomination in 2008

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„I cannot be me, without you“ these are the wise words of the South African wisdom „Ubuntu“ that Archbishop Desmond Tutu tells Mo Asumang before sending her out on her journey to find the Vision of the „Rainbow Nation“ in South Africa. The Rainbow Nation, was supposed to replace the apartheid era. But did that really happen? And what did we see while the soccer world cup?

Together with the comedian Kagiso Lediga, Mo`s tour guide, they travel in a rusty old minibus to find out if black’s, ands white’s now live equaly together 16 years after the end of Apartheid. Politicians and other well known figure such as F.W. de Klerk (former president of South Africa), Helen Zille (Leader of the Democratic Alliance), Patricia De Lille (Leader of the Independent Democrats), Geoff Doidge (ANC Minister) share with Mo their opinions about the existance of the Rainbow Nation in South Africa.

But Mo and Kagiso find the truth in the lives of street children, township families,  in the periphery of crime and security and by making friends with the little boy Inganathi, who is HIV positive.    

„Road to Rainbow“ portraits the image of a changing african society in an entertaining, profound, and, above all in a naive yet provocative way. 

What makes South Africa for me the most interesting and somehow thrilling is its transformation. There was Apartheid that until 1994 suppressed the population for so many years. And then the vision of the Rainbow Nation was to replace that cruel time, but did it really do so? After my first visit to Cape Town in 1998 I was shocked: Segregation was still there, and the separation of rich white and poor black people was a fact of life. I absolutely could not stand such injustice. Since then I always had one sentence in my head: „South Africa, there is still a story between us.“  I came back to do this story, looking for the lost vision of the Rainbow Nation in 2009 in my Movie "Road to Rainbow". I wanted to see if South Africa had transformed and if blacks and whites now live together - and not just in the same country.

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