North American Premiere
A modest location survey between Uganda and Kenya sets the stage for a rather candid exchange between a local location fixer and filmmaker Daniel Mann, who requests a screen test.
Unearthing unexpected and horrifying facts lost to a history written by an eager purveyor of empire, The Recce captures Cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries, binding the fiction of filmmaking to the fiction of state-building.
UK/Germany
2026
English
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Credits & Director
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Daniel Mann
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Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann is a London-based filmmaker and writer. His feature films have screened at the Berlinale, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinema du Réel, DOC NYC, the Hong Kong Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, DocLisboa, Visions du Réel, and the ICA in London. His current book project, Hot Locations: Cinema on the Planetary Frontier (forthcoming from UC Press in 2026), explores the neocolonial economy of desert film locations and the material politics that connect cinema and hyper-arid lands. Mann was a fellow at the Camargo Foundation and is now a part of the film studies faculty at King’s College London.
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