SCHOOL PROGRAM Fri, Dec. 6 @ 11AM - Chapel - Tickets Here
Conceived as an effort to alter the way African-American children see themselves and their ancestors, this docu-drama highlights the inventive and inspired contributions of African-Americans in the 1840s, the period leading to the Civil [...]
This is the physicality of the dance; the awe of a body flowing through space, flipping, spinning, and snaking as if giving birth to a new means of self-expression. Across South African cities and townships, dance has long been a [...] Read More
Colombia's submission for the 2014 Academy Awards' Foreign Language Competition.Fri, Dec. 6 @ 10PM - Quad - Tickets Here
Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country's Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces difficulties of growing up in a city of exclusion and racism.
A musical road movie, "Return to Gor�e" follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music [...]
NY Premiere Fri, Dec. 6 @ 5:10PM - Quad - Tickets Here
Did you know that scrap metal is America's 4th largest export? Well, Hollis Wallace does, and he makes his quiet living trolling the back alleys of Seattle looking for cast-off copper, aluminum and [...]
"Dust" braid to memories from a writer's youth: parting with a lover and spending time with a dying grandfather. With nods to "Hiroshima Mon Amour" , "Malcom X" and " The Conformist" the [...]
Saturday, December 14 @ 8PM - Teachers College, Cowin Center
RACE / RA�A
Directed by Joel Zito Ara�jo and Megan Mylan, Brazil/USA/104 min US Premiere
In a country with the world's second largest black population and a reputation for racial harmony, black Brazilians remain nearly absent in the halls of power and history books. But things are changing. Ra�a follows three people on the front lines of a hauntingly familiar, yet quintessentially Brazilian, battle for equality. In the modernist capital of Brasilia, the country's only black senator fights for landmark civil rights legislation. In the fast-paced metropolis of S�o Paulo, a famous black pop-star launches a TV station with a cast that looks like Brazil rather than Scandinavia. And deep in the rural countryside, a granddaughter of slaves mobilizes her neighbors to defend ancestral land rights.
Raca: trailer by director Joel Zito (English subtitles)
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AFRO-LATINO NIGHT: TANGO NEGRO & CANDOMBE
ADIFF Centerpiece Screening
Friday, December 13 @ 8:30pm - Cowin Center, Teachers College
TANGO NEGRO, AFRICAN ROOTS OF TANGO
US Premiere
Tango Negro, African Roots of Tango
by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression of Tango's Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves that were taken to South America - including Argentina and Uruguay - mostly from central Africa, particularly from the former Kongo Kingdom. Director Dom Pedro reveals the depth of the footprints of the African music on the tango, through this rich movie combining musical performances and interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe, including the renowned Argentinean pianist Juan Carlos Caceres.
Directed by Dom Pedro, 2013, 93 min., France, Documentary , French/Spanish/ English subt.
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CANDOMBE
More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of slaves from Africa whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernado Nunez, a black man, a musician, and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an important social and cultural legacy from his slave forefathers. The official history and culture of Uruguay, on the other hand, which has never acknowledged this contribution to the degree which it deserves, continues to marginalize expressions of black culture. Fernando Nunez and his friends from the Barrio Sur back street quarter of Montevideo have decided to fight to keep these important cultural roots alive in the consciousness of the Uruguayan people.
Directed by Rafael Deugenio, 1993, 16 min., Uruguay, Docu-drama, Spanish/ English subt.
Q&A after the screening followed by catered reception
a film version of the hit mini-series, follows three veteran soldiers of the African National Congress who return to South Africa after years in exile to pick up the pieces of their lives and careers. Charlie wants to open a club; Thabo struggles to reacquaint himself with his wife and family; and Peter remains in politics to uncover the hard truths about those who betrayed the ANC.
Norman Maake, South Africa, 2005, 90 mins. in English.
Set in Brooklyn, New York this US/Dutch film is based on a true story. Desir�e lives in the past. A series of flashbacks expose us to her psychologically troubled childhood very much affected by a promiscous mother. Her present life revolves around three people: her employer Mrs. Resnick, Freddy, her lover and Father Siego, leader of the church "The True Confessors". Rejected by all because of her pregnancy, Desir�e blames her child as the source of evil...
Felix De Roy, Netherlands/USA, 1984, 96min, Drama, English
Banned in Cameroon,The Big Banana illustrates the poor working conditions in banana plantations and exposes the adverse impact on the people of a corporatocracy government that affords super profits for corporations at the expense of the local population.
Franck Bieleu, Cameroon, 2011, 85min, Doc. in French with English subtitles
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