You may download the 2023 poster/viewing schedule here.
Friday, March 24 | 7PM
Precious Hair & Beauty
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John Ogunmuyiwa, United Kingdom, 2021, 11 minutes
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon.
Saint Omer
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Alice Diop, Senegal/France, 2022, 122 minutes
Follow Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea. Things do not go as expected.
Saturday, March 25 | 7PM
La Star
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Kevin Mavakala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2022, 14 minutes
A director does everything possible to ensure his film shoot is successful. Unfortunately for him, he casts an actress who does not make his task easy.
Tug Of War (Vuta N’Kuvute)
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Amil Shivji, Tanzania and South Africa, 2021, 92 minutes
Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar.
Reception and post-show discussion with Amil Shivji, moderated by filmmaker Ekwa Msangi following screening.
Sunday, March 26 | 7PM
Egúngún (Masquerade)
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Olive Nwosu, Nigeria, 2021, 14 minutes
A woman returns to her hometown of Lagos in search of healing. What she discovers instead is a path that takes her into her past and toward a new understanding of the people and experiences that shaped her. Egúngún (Masquerade) is a meditation on home, memory, and identity — on the many versions of ourselves that haunt us.
Xalé
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Moussa Sene Absa, Senegal, 2022, 101 minutes
The drama centers on Awa, a 15-year-old student, and her twin brother (and confidante) Adama, who dreams of a better life in Europe. When their beloved grandmother arranges for their Aunt Fatou to marry a relative whom Fatou detests, the results of this forced union bear consequences not only for the unhappy couple, but for the community — and, most gravely, for the twins. The film boldly inflects contemporary melodrama with traditional storytelling modes in this potent, music-filled tale of one woman’s tragedy and transcendence.