“Amine – Ein Held auf Bewährung” (Amine – A Hero on the Proof”) is a 70 minutes documentary film by director Dani Heusser and Catpics production. In scenes where footage wasn’t existing or filming wasn’t allowed, such as from the protagonists past and of official questionings, animation was used. Luigi Olivadoti first created illustrations, which I then transformed into animations.

For this I imported the illustrations into Adobe Animate and manipulated them to add minimal movements, often loops, to bring the images to life.

Synopsis: Amine Diare Conde fleed from Guinea to Europe at the age of fifteen. He’s the initiator of “Essen für alle”, a distribution of free food for people who hadn’t enough food during the Corona pandemic. With 22 years, his voluntary activism made the most publicly known asylum seeker in Switzerland. The little time left to him next to the social project, he fights for his right of residence.

Amine Diare Conde flüchtet mit fünfzehn Jahren aus Guinea nach Europa. Er ist der Initiant von «Essen für alle», einer Verteilung von Gratisessen für Menschen, die während der Corona-Pandemie zu wenig Lebensmittel haben. Sein ehrenamtliches Engagement macht den 22-Jährigen zum bekanntesten Asylbewerber der Schweiz. In der wenigen Zeit, die ihm neben dem Projekt bleibt, kämpft der Abgewiesene für sein Bleiberecht.