THE BEST OF ADIFF
Fri, Jan. 18 to Sun,
Jan. 20
Screenings at the Cowin
Center and The Chapel -
525 W 120th St. (between Broadway & Amsterdam)
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Fri, Jan. 18 @ 6:30PM -
Cowin - Teachers College Q&A
After the screening. A Garifuna language teacher from a
coastal village in Honduras, Central America, struggles to preserve his
indigenous culture and communal lands in the face of tourism's
encroachment and personal betrayal. Directed by Ali Allie & Ruben
Reyes, 2012, 100 min, USA/Honduras, Drama, Garifuna/English/Spanish with
English [...]Read More
Fri, Jan. 18 @ 8:30PM -
Cowin Center, Teachers College. Q&A After the screening. A
revolutionary collaboration between Hollywood and Nollywood, Dr. Bello follows
the life of brilliant cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant (Isaiah
Washington). Emotionally troubled and on bad terms with his wife (Vivica
A. Fox), Dr. Durant becomes attached to Sam, a seven-year-old patient
whose health deteriorates [...] Read More
Sat, Jan. 19 @ 2PM - Chapel
- Teachers College Loving and revealing documentary about Afro-Brazilian
scholar/writer/activist /politician Abdias do Nasciemento (1930-2011), a
significant figure in and leader in Brazil's Black movement who fo unded
the Black Experimental Theater in 1964 and was very active in the
international Pan-African Movement. Directed by Aida Marques, 2011, 95
[...]Read More
Sat, Jan. 19 @ 4PM - The
Chapel In response to the call of the National Liberation Front, thousands
of Algerians marched on October 17, 1961 to protest against the curfew
imposed on them. The brutal repression they confronted is recounted in
detail in this documentary, which reveals one of the painful pages of the
[...] Read More
Sat, Jan. 19 @ 6PM - The
Chapel, Teachers College Q&A
After the screening. The story of health workers in
Ethiopia, Cambodia and Haiti, Sister offers a revealing portrait of
people whose daily work is to help women give birth in an atmosphere of
low prenatal care and high maternal and child mortality. The filmmaker
follows a Haitian midwife, [...] Read More
Sat, Jan. 19 @ 8PM - Chapel
- Teachers College 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. When Jairo, his younger
brother and closer friend disappear, Tomas is forced to leave his home to
look [...] Read More
Sun, Jan. 20 @ 1PM - Chapel
- Teachers College Hopeville tells the story of Amos, a reformed
alcoholic on a mission to forge a relationship with his son Themba. When
both arrive in the dusty town of Hopeville, they discover a community
with a long history of hate, corruption, fear and apathy. Through
patience, [...] Read More
Sun, Jan. 20 @ 3PM - Chapel
- Teachers College Q&A
After the screening. Tango MacBeth offers a
multicultural, multigenerational vision and presentation of the
Shakespeare play. This provocative version of Macbeth unfold like a
Möbius strip. Moving back and forth, the drama of the play intertwines
with the drama of making the film. The film offers an original [...] Read More
Sun, Jan 20 @ 5PM - The
Chapel, Teachers College Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, Between
Friends is a film that presents an anthology of intersecting stories and
characters who are all con nected to one another in some way. The
storyline, focused on two generations of contemporary middle class
Trinidadians, gradually exposes the hopes, secrets, [...] Read More
Sunday,
Jan. 20 @ 7PM - The Chapel, Teachers College Recommended!
"Eye-opening... De la Parra depicts his [protagonist's] rediscovery
of Suriname as an exuberant rite of passage, rich in flora, music, and
fashion." -Chicago Reader Roy (Borger Breeveld) is a young
black Surinamese studying in Amsterdam. When he learns that his mother is
seriously [...]
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Following
its US Gala Screening Premiere during the 20th Annual African Diaspora
International Film Festival, THE
PIROGUE will now have its first US Theatrical Release at
Film Forum starting on January 23, 2013.
THE PIROGUE
Wednesday,
January 23 - Tuesday, February 5
 Screening
Times
- 1:00
- 2:50
- 4:40
- 6:30
- 8:20
- 10:10
$7
Member $12.50 Regular
DIRECTED
BY MOUSSA TOURÉ
Senegal,
a West African nation on the Atlantic Ocean, was home to Africa's
greatest movie-maker, Ousmane Sembene. Today, Moussa Touré follows in the
master's footsteps with this drama of 30 men (and one wo man, a stowaway)
who set out on an illegal 7-day voyage to Spain - making the perilous
trip in a pirogue
- a boat resembling a vastly oversized dinghy. While sharing a common
desire to build a better future, these men hail from different ethnic and
religious backgrounds. The story grows from a finely delineated mosaic of
personalities - reactions to the journey's mounting danger - that span
the emotional panoply of human experience. Touré's compelling tale says
as much about the universal nature of courage and perfidy as it does
about the economic realities faced by so many of the world's people. THE PIROGUE
was featured in Cannes 2012, in the Un
Certain Regard section.
SENEGAL
/ FRANCE * 2012 * 87 MINS.
IN FRENCH, WOLOF,
AND AL PELAAR WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES * ARTMATTAN PRODUCTIONS
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