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The 24th New York African Film Festival Begins Today, Run May 3-9<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

May 3, 2017<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Film Society of Lincoln Center and African Film Festival, Inc. present the 24th New York African Film Festival<\/strong>, May 3-9. The festival\u2019s theme, \u201cThe Peoples\u2019 Revolution,\u201d taps into the pulse of protest and the calls for change bubbling up throughout the peoples of the world, a reform charge championed by a new wave of artists throughout Africa and its diaspora. The festival continues throughout May at Lehman College, Maysles Cinema, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music\u2019s BAMcin\u00e9matek. Across these venues, the festival will present a total of 25 feature-length films and 36 short films from 25 countries\u2014celebrated African films from the continent and the diaspora.<\/p>\n

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Opening Night will see the U.S. premiere of award-winning South African director Akin Omotoso\u2019s Vaya<\/strong>, a moving film about three strangers on a train to the city whose lives eventually collide. The film won the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Film at the 2016 Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) and took the Best Screenplay prize at Africa Magic Viewer\u2019s Choice Awards in 2017. A reception will follow at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater. Tickets for the movie and Opening Night Reception are $150 and are available online at africanfilmny.org. Regular festival prices apply to tickets for the screening only and they can be purchased at filmlinc.org.<\/p>\n

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Ethiopian filmmaker Sewmehon Yismaw\u2019s drama Ewir Amora Kelabi<\/strong> will have its world premiere as the Centerpiece selection on Friday, May 5. Based on a true story, this remarkable tale is about one\u2019s journey to find a better life and honor one\u2019s family, highlighting the plight of displaced people worldwide.<\/p>\n

Other films taking up this theme include the Tunisian dramedy Zizou<\/strong>, set at the outset of the Arab Spring; the South African drama Kalushi, based on a true story during the Soweto uprisings; the South African documentary Uprize!<\/strong>, about a peaceful protest of the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1970s that turned into a slaughter; the documentary Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom<\/strong>, a rarely screened repertory title chronicling the American leader as he took on global issues; and Footprints of Pan-Africanism<\/strong>, a documentary on the role of Africans in the independence movement.<\/p>\n

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The FSLC segment concludes with \u201cArt and Activism: Personal Journeys,\u201d a town hall event with artists of various disciplines discussing how their art serves as activism, at the Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center Amphitheater. It includes a digital art exhibition exploring dance and movement via virtual reality.<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on sale Thursday, April 20. A pre-sale to Film Society members will begin Tuesday, April 18. Single screening tickets are $14; $11 for students and seniors (62+); and $9 for Film Society members. See more and save with the 3+ film discount package. Visit filmlinc.org for more information.<\/p>\n

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Following its opening at Film Society of Lincoln Center, the NYAFF heads to other New York City institutions throughout May. On May 10, the festival presents an evening of film and discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, in conjunction with the New York City Mayor\u2019s Office of Media Entertainment\u2019s inaugural \u201cOne Book, One New York\u201d program. On May 19, the festival lands at Maysles Cinema in Harlem for a three-day program of documentaries. As is its tradition, the festival concludes over Memorial Day Weekend (May 26-29) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAMcin\u00e9matek) as part of its popular dance and music festival DanceAfrica.<\/p>\n

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The programs of AFF are made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Bradley Family Foundation, International Organization of La Francophonie, Domenico Paulon Foundation, New York Community Trust, NYC & Company, French Cultural Services, Manhattan Portage Bags, City Bakery, Black Hawk Imports, Voss Water, South African Consulate General, Consulate General of Sweden in New York, Hudson Hotel, and Royal Air Maroc.<\/p>\n

FILMS & DESCRIPTIONS
\nAll screenings take place at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th Street) unless otherwise noted<\/p>\n

Opening Night<\/strong>
\nVaya<\/strong>
\nAkin Omotoso, South Africa, 2016, 115m
\nZulu with English subtitles
\nThree strangers on a train traveling from the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal to Johannesburg are bound by interlocking destinies. Nkulu (Sibusiso Msimang), charged with retrieving his father’s remains from the capital for burial, is unaware that a whole other set of relatives have their own plans. Zanele (Zimkhitha Nyoka), chaperoning a young girl en route to reuniting with her singer mother, is given an exciting offer to appear on television that may be more than meets the eye. Nhlanhla (Sihle Xaba), excited by the prospect of getting rich quick, gets caught up in criminal activities. Imagine a South African spin on Amores Perros and you’re on the right path. U.S. Premiere
\nWednesday, May 3, 7:00pm* (Q&A with Akin Omotoso)
\nFriday, May 5, 2:00pm
\n*Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th Street<\/p>\n

Centerpiece<\/strong>
\nEwir Amora Kelabi<\/strong>
\nSewmehon Yismaw, Ethiopia, 2016, 85m
\nAmharic with English subtitles
\nBased on a true story, this film chronicles the life of Major Tibebu Mesfin, who worked for the Dergue Regime in Ethiopia. During this time of ideological struggle and infighting among the regime\u2019s leadership, Tibebu disappears and his wife is captured, imprisoned, and tortured. Years later, fueled by a deep-seated desire to help his ailing mother, Tibebu’s son leaves the town of Gonder to search for work. The result is an unpredictable adventure, the story of how far one man will go to fulfill his destiny, and a tale for the ages about the resilience of the human spirit. World Premiere<\/p>\n

Preceded by:
\nHairat<\/strong>
\nHarari and Oromiffa with English subtitles
\nJessica Beshir, Ethiopia, 2016, 7m
\nFor the past 35 years, Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas. New York Premiere
\nFriday, May 5, 6:30pm (Q&A with Sewmehon Yismaw, Zekarias Tibebu Mesfin, and Jessica Beshir)
\nTuesday, May 9, 1:30pm<\/p>\n

Ayiti Mon Amour<\/strong>
\nGuetty Felin, Haiti, 2016, 88m
\nHaitian Creole, French, and Japanese with English subtitles
\nSet in Haiti five years after the devastating 2010 earthquake, Guetty Felin’s magical realist tale avoids the kinds of images of the disaster that saturated screens around the world. In his depiction of young Orph\u00e9e’s grief over the loss of his father beneath the rubble of decimated buildings (represented in ghostly images that float beneath the ocean’s surface), Felin refuses to tell a story of victimhood. Instead, she gives the narrative back to the Haitian people, whose lives cannot be reduced headlines. And as her characters begin to heal, Felin suggests that the island will too. Co-presented with Cinema Tropical.<\/p>\n

Preceded by:
\nJojolo<\/strong>
\nLebert Bethune, Jamaica\/USA, 1966, 12m
\nA subtle study of cultural identity following a graceful young woman of Haitian descent who works as a fashion model and actress in cosmopolitan Paris. Cool, light, and lyrical in style, Bethune\u2019s portrait has a deft thematic touch.
\nSunday, May 7, 6:15pm (Q&A with Guetty Felin, Lebert Bethune)<\/p>\n

Footprints of Pan-Africanism<\/strong>
\nShirikiana Gerima, USA, 2017, 77m
\nThe documentary \u00ad\u00adFootprints of Pan-Africanism revisits the era of Ghana\u2019s emergence into independence, when Africans on the continent and in the diaspora participated in building a liberated territory. This movement, rooted in the determination to reassert black people\u2019s humanity and recover from the impact of slavery and colonialism, constituted an essential, indispensable part of the global Pan-African vision for liberation, which in the 1950s, \u201960s, and \u201970s ushered in no less than a black political and cultural revolution. Footprints ultimately celebrates the challenges young generations continue to pose to those who have yet to pick up the baton of the great Pan-African dreamers. Co-presented with Africa-America Institute. New York Premiere<\/p>\n

Preceded by:
\nAccra Power<\/strong>
\nSandra Krampelhuber, Austria\/Ghana, 2016, 49m
\nAccra Power focuses on the creative and artistic strategies of young Ghanaians situated at the crossroads of tradition and various belief systems, high technological and economic growth, infrastructural deficits and current energy crisis. U.S. Premiere
\nSunday, May 7, 1:30pm (Q&A with Shirikiana Gerima, Sandra Krampelhuber, Andrea Verena Strasser)<\/p>\n

Green White Green<\/strong>
\nAbba Makama, Nigeria, 2016, 102m
\nEnglish and Pidgin with English subtitles
\nShot on location in Lagos, Green White Green humorously explores social and political views commonly held throughout Nigeria, with each character representing one of the country\u2019s three major ethnic groups. A story about classism and how people from different economic and cultural backgrounds think and behave, Green White Green plays with stereotypes to illustrate just how similar we are despite our diversity and prejudices. New York Premiere
\nFriday, May 5, 8:45pm (Q&A with Abba Makama)<\/p>\n

Kalushi<\/strong>
\nMandla Dube, South Africa, 2016, 110m
\nEnglish, Afrikaans, and Tsotsi-taal with English subtitles
\nKalushi is a true story about Solomon Mahlangu, a 19-year-old hawker from the streets of Mamelodi, a ghetto township outside Pretoria, South Africa. After being brutally beaten by police during the 1976 Soweto uprisings, he goes into exile and joins the liberation movement; a series of violent events lead Mahlangu on a journey that culminates in his being forced to stand trial for his life, using the courtroom as his final battlefield. A hero of the struggle against apartheid, Mahlangu would become an international icon of South Africa\u2019s liberation. New York Premiere
\nSaturday, May 6, 8:30pm (Q&A with Thabo Rametsi, Pearl Thusi)
\nTuesday, May 9, 3:30pm<\/p>\n

Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta<\/strong>
\nOusmane William Mbaye, Senegal, 2016, 94m
\nIn Wolof and French with English subtitles
\n\u201cThe Universal Man,\u201d \u201cThe Capital Contemporary,\u201d \u201cThe Giant of Knowledge,\u201d \u201cThe Last Pharaoh\u201d: those were some of the newspaper headlines the day after the death of Senegalese historian, doctor, and politician Cheikh Anta Diop on February 7, 1986. Kemtiyu is a portrait of this trailblazing scholar\u2014venerated by some, derided by others, and unknown to most\u2014an honest, enlightened political figure who had an insatiable thirst for science and knowledge. New York Premiere
\nThursday, May 4, 6:00pm (Q&A with Ousmane William Mbaye)<\/p>\n

Mapantsula<\/strong>
\nOliver Schmitz, South Africa, 1988, 100m
\nIn English, Sotho, Zulu, and Afrikaans with English subtitles
\nMapantsula was the first anti-apartheid feature film made by, for, and about black South Africans. Filmed inside Soweto, scored to the urban beat of \u201cTownship Jive\u201d music, it has been called a South African The Harder They Come. Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who gets caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and standing united with others against the system. This film gives viewers an insider\u2019s tour of township life and a taste of the vibrant popular cinema to come promised by the new, democratic South Africa.
\nMonday, May 8, 9:00pm<\/p>\n

Noem My Skollie (Call Me Thief)<\/strong>
\nDaryne Joshua, South Africa, 2016, 125m
\nAfrikaans with English subtitles
\nDaryne Joshua\u2019s debut feature is a portrait of life on the mean streets of Cape Town\u2019s lawless Cape Flats in the 1960s. Barely into their teens, Abraham and his three friends form a gang, more out of self-preservation than malice. As they grow up, Abraham (now played by the intense Dann-Jacques Mouton) and his gang turn to petty thievery. After he is arrested, Abraham\u2019s storytelling abilities protect him from the worst that prison life has to offer. Once he\u2019s out, he hopes to reunite with his childhood sweetheart and get his stories down on paper\u2014if, that is, his gang friends and society give him a chance. Noem My Skollie is both a tribute to the human need for stories\u2014and storytellers\u2014and a realistic look at youth gang behavior. New York Premiere
\nThursday, May 4, 8:15pm (Q&A with Daryne Joshua)
\nMonday, May 8, 2:00pm<\/p>\n

Play the Devil<\/strong>
\nMaria Govan, Trinidad, 2016, 90m
\nIn Play the Devil, the prevailing poverty and lush beauty of Trinidad and the pulsating rhythms of Carnival are backdrop to a story where dreams and obsession collide. Gifted 18-year-old Gregory is his family’s only hope for financial success. When the naive young man meets James, a powerful, affluent businessman offering friendship and guidance, his world spins out of control. As James’s persistent advances become more intrusive and menacing, Gregory’s initial compliance changes to rejection and the fallout threatens to ruin his future and expose his secrets. Gregory and James face each other once again\u2014on Carnival Monday, when young men cover themselves in blue paint, dress as devils, and become lost in the frenzy of drumming and howling. Co-presented with Cinema Tropical.
\nFriday, May 5, 4:30pm
\nSunday, May 7, 8:45pm (Q&A with Maria Govan)<\/p>\n

Uprize!<\/strong>
\nSifiso Khanyile, South Africa, 2016, 58m
\nOn the morning of June 16, 1976, students gathered to protest the use of the Afrikaans language in schools. What started out as a planned peaceful march turned into a bloody confrontation with the police. The student protests spread to other parts of South Africa, causing an economic instability that rapidly plunged the country into crisis. Uprize! looks at the political, social, and cultural conditions that shaped the uprising, how those ideas we transformed into liberatory action, and how those actions helped shape the democratic society we live in today. Co-presented with Human Rights Watch Film Festival. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

Preceded by:
\nMalcolm X: Struggle for Freedom<\/strong>
\nLebert Bethune, Jamaica\/USA, 1967, 20m
\nBethune\u2019s film portrays Malcolm X at a time when his views were evolving to include what was going on in the world at large. It features interviews filmed during Malcolm X\u2019s trip to Europe and Africa shortly before his assassination in the United States, interspersed with scenes of African rebellion. Co-presented with Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
\nSunday, May 7, 4:15pm (Q&A with Sifiso Khanyile, Lebert Bethune)<\/p>\n

Zizou<\/strong>
\nF\u00e9rid Boughedir, Tunisia\/ France, 2016, 99m
\nArabic and French with English subtitles
\nIn Boughedir\u2019s tale of an unlikely hero, young college graduate Aziz, nicknamed \u201cZizou,\u201d leaves his village on the border of Sahara for the capital in quest of a job. After he becomes a satellite-dish installer, interacting with people from all walks of life, he falls madly in love with a young woman who has ties to a mafia group working closely with the governmental regime. His quest to set her free becomes his reason for living, and he proceeds unconsciously into the growing tide of a revolution about to wash over Tunisia. Co-presented with Alwan for the Arts.
\nNew York Premiere
\nSaturday, May 6, 3:45pm (Q&A with F\u00e9rid Boughedir)
\nMonday, May 8, 4:30pm<\/p>\n

SHORTS PROGRAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shorts Program 1: Quartier Lointains: Justice
\nTotal runtime: 87m
\nThe following selection was curated by the traveling shorts program Quartiers Lointains, which highlights films from distant quarters throughout Africa.<\/p>\n

80
\nMuhannad Lamin, Libya, 2012, 6m
\nLamin\u2019s 80 depicts a man on the two most important days of his life: the day he gets caught and imprisoned and the day he escapes. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375
\nOmar El Zohairy, Egypt, 2014, 18m
\nAftermath is an adaptation of Death of a Government Clerk, a short story by Anton Chekhov that takes a metaphorical approach to the idea of fear. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

Kanye Kanye
\nMiklas Manneke, South Africa, 2013, 26m
\nIn a South African township, where an argument over whether red or green apples are better causes the greatest divide in the town’s history, a young man, Thomas, falls in love with Thandi, who falls into the opposite camp. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

Madama Esther
\nLuck Razanajaona, Madagascar, 2013, 15m
\nAfter getting fired, Mrs. Esther, a housekeeper in her fifties, may no longer be able to bring her grandson to the sea. So to make extra money, she agrees to harbor clandestine cockfights in her yard. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

A Place for Myself
\nMarie-Cl\u00e9mentine Dusabejambo, Rwanda, 2016, 22m
\nElikia, a five-year-old girl with albinism, is made to feel unwanted by her classmates and neighbors. But her mother encourages her to embrace her differences. Together, they stand up for themselves and fight back against discrimination. U.S. Premiere
\nSaturday, May 6, 1:00pm<\/p>\n

Shorts Program 2: Shorts from Senegal
\nTotal runtime: 101m<\/p>\n

Marabout
\nAlassane Sy, Senegal, 2016, 18m
\nWolof and French with English subtitles
\nMarabout is the story of a police detective in Dakar who pursues a group of street kids after they steal from him, only to learn about the dangers they are exposed to in their daily lives. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

Boxing Girl
\nIman Djionne, Senegal, 2016, 26m
\nWolof and French with English subtitles
\nBoxing Girl is a coming-of-age tale about a bored 17-year-old hairdresser who finds red boxing gloves after getting hit by a motorbike in Dakar. As soon as she puts them on, she gets mysteriously carried all over the city. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

Dem! Dem!
\nPape Bouname Lopy, Marc Recchia, Christophe Rolin, Senegal, 2016, 26m
\nWolof and French with English subtitles
\nA Senegalese fisherman finds a Belgian passport on a beach in Dakar and decides to use it. He soon crosses paths with N\u2019Zibou, a wise man who measures the clouds and questions the man about his search for identity.<\/p>\n

Maman(s)
\nMa\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9, Senegal\/France, 2016, 20m
\nFrench with English subtitles
\nThe lives of eight-year-old Aida and her family, who live in an apartment in the Parisian suburbs, are turned upside down when the girl\u2019s father returns from their home country of Senegal\u2014and he is not alone.<\/p>\n

Samedi Cinema
\nMamadou Dia, USA, 2017, 11m
\nWolof and French with English subtitles
\nTwo young Senegalese boys\u2019 friendship is tested after they are determined to see one last film at the town movie theater before it closes.
\nSaturday, May 6, 6:15pm (Q&A with Mamadou Dia, Christophe Rolin, Pape Bouname Lopy)<\/p>\n

Shorts Program 3: New York Shorts
\nTotal runtime: 79m<\/p>\n

Adam & Howa
\nSarra Idris, Sudan, 2015, 8m
\nA couple\u2019s story becomes a metaphor for the relationship between the Sudanese diaspora who fled the country after political turmoil and those who were left behind. New York Premiere<\/p>\n

Farewell Meu Amor
\nEkwa Msangi, Tanzania\/USA, 2016, 10m
\nOn the morning of the long-awaited reunion with his exiled family, a man is faced with the heartbreak of a different type\u2014of parting from his lover. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

My Third Eye
\nNova Scott-James, USA, 2016, 4m
\nThis silent meditation on the relationship between a little girl and the male family member sexually abusing her examines the pain of intergenerational black familial trauma, but also the gift of spiritual independence. U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n

Rest in Power, Malik Carmichael
\nS. Ajay Ram, USA, 2014, 11m
\nIn this experimental short, eulogizing the life of 16-year-old Malik, a hypothetical teenager from the west side of Harlem, documentary-style interviews with Malik’s friends and family piece together the exceptional existence and senseless death of a black boy genius. New York Premiere<\/p>\n

Sketch
\nMariama Diallo, USA, 2017, 14m
\nA police sketch artist believes he has stumbled upon the suspect from one of his drawings and that he must do the right thing. New York Premiere<\/p>\n

Ududeagu
\nAkwaeke Emezi, Nigeria, 2014, 2m
\nIgbo with English subtitles
\nThis contemporary visual folktale is rooted in concepts of loss, leaving, and loneliness. Emezi collaborated with her father to translate the voiceover, originally written in English, into Igbo, and narrated it herself as an exercise in engaging with the lost fluency of her language. New York Premiere<\/p>\n

\u1e62oju
\nOluwaseun Babalola, USA\/Botswana\/Nigeria\/Sierra Leone, 2016, 30m
\nIn this documentary, surfers, metal heads, and guerilla filmmakers explore their identities and culture in Sierra Leone, Botswana, and Nigeria. New York Premiere
\nMonday, May 8, 6:45pm (Q&A with Sarra Idris, Ekwa Msangi, Nova Scott-James, Mariama Diallo, S. Ajay Ram, Akwaeke Emezi, Oluwaseun Babalola)<\/p>\n

FREE EXHIBITION AND TOWN HALL EVENT<\/strong>
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater, 144 West 65th Street<\/p>\n

Digital Art Exhibition<\/strong>
\nAfro Promo #1 (Kinglady) + Afripedia \u2013 Dance Battle 360\u00b0 + Body Mechanics
\nIn Afro Promo #1 (Kinglady), performance artist and choreographer Nora Chipaumire explores the influence of comic book heroes on the American immigrant experience to unpack aspects of African masculinity and explore the creation of a Black, African, male-female superhero. This will be accompanied by a new, interactive piece from the Afripedia collective titled Afripedia \u2013 Dance Battle 360\u00b0, a virtual reality showcase of contemporary African street dance culture, an immersive experience that allows anyone, anywhere to experience dance from the continent firsthand; and Body Mechanics, a short experimental dance film by Brooklyn-based artist Keisha Knight remixing archival films by Thomas Edison to explore early cinema\u2019s fascination with the exotic and the electric.
\nMay 3-9<\/p>\n

Town Hall Event<\/strong>
\nArt and Activism: Personal Journeys
\nJoin us for a panel featuring the most illustrious interdisciplinary artists from the international African diaspora, who will discuss the visual and social themes underscoring the festival. Guests include Zimbabwe-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer Nora Chipaumire (via Skype); Ethiopian and Eritrean film producers Teddy Goitom and Senay Berhe, who produced Afripedia; Darlene and Lizzy Okpo, designers of William Okpo; and Raquel Cepeda, filmmaker and author of Bird of Paradise.
\nTuesday, May 9, 7:00pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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