Schwarze Früchte Fest

The new series BLACK FRUIT celebrated its world premiere at the renowned Tribeca Film Festival. At this year's Filmfest Hamburg, the series will be presented in Germany for the first time, and starting on October 18th, the eight-part first season will be available on the ARD Mediathek.

With the organization of the SCHWARZE FRÜCHTE FEST, the Hamburg collective POWER.HAUS aims to celebrate the Hamburg-based series and place it within the broader context of Afro-German, Black, and queer-feminist cultural production, as well as film and television history. The SCHWARZE FRÜCHTE FEST at Kampnagel will not only feature a collective viewing of the entire first season but also create a space for discussion, where the audience can engage with the series' content and interact directly with the creators present. To celebrate this milestone, the event will conclude with a party featuring Hamburg DJs at KMH.

The series centers around Lalo, who, in his twenties, is thrown off course by the unexpected death of his father. In an attempt to cope with his loss, he dives headfirst into impulsive actions—disrupting not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him. Meanwhile, his best friend Karla is achieving her career goals in the financial world but struggles with growing exhaustion and loneliness. Between witty exchanges and moments of silence, generational conflicts and chosen family, flirtations and growing pains, Lalo and Karla are trying to become the people they want to be—amidst recurring chaos.

With his unique perspective, creator, lead actor, head writer, and showrunner Lamin Leroy Gibba crafts a must-watch dramedy series, providing a distinctive, confident, and balanced look at the realities of Black and queer characters through seriousness, irony, and authenticity. This contemporary coming-of-age series unfolds universal themes such as friendship, identity, loss, and new beginnings over eight episodes. Directors Elisha Smith-Leverock and David Uzochukwu shape these elements into an engaging and timely everyday study of diverse relationship structures and societal power dynamics. The scripts are written by a young writing team, led by Lamin Leroy Gibba as head writer, alongside Sophia Ayissi, Naomi Kelechi Odhiambo, Lisa Tracy Michalik, and Sarah Claire Wray. The crew behind the camera is also predominantly made up of BIPoC filmmakers.