KAS Lighting is pleased to announce that Little Senegal has been named an official competitor in the Berlin Film Festival.

KAS Lighting provided lighting and truck services to Little Senegal for the United States portion of the film.

Please read the following official announcement of this prestigious nomination.

(COLOGNE) - Little Senegal, an Algerian-French-German co-production by French director Rachid Bouchareb, will be in the official competition of this year's Berlin film festival, which runs from Feb. 7-18, festival organizers announced Monday.

The film follows the journey of Alloune
(Sotigui Kouyaté), a guide at the Museum of Slavery in Senegal, who travels to the United States to trace his ancestors who were sold as slaves 200 years ago. Hoping to reunite his family after centuries of separation, as Alloune travels from Charlestone to Little Senegal in Harlem, he is confronted by the divide between the African and African-American societies.

Little Senegal is Algeria's official entry for the Foreign Oscar nominations. The film also stars Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem and Karim Koussein Traore. Produced by 3B's
Jean Bréhat it is being sold internationally by France's TF1 International.

Little Senegal is a co-production between Bouchareb's 3B Productions, Germany's TaunusFilm International, France 2 Cinema and Tassili Films,