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Passport Thursdays: The Longest Kiss + Adam & Howa

Event

"The Longest Kiss / A jamais, pour toujours," by Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque / Sudan and Canada / 2013 / 74mins / Documentary / English and Arabic

Details

Free

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Queens Museum
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368

Co-presented by Queens Museum and Alwan for the Arts.

Special programming

Live performance by Zikrayat at 7:00pm

About our Summer Series

During this annual series, AFF presents free programs throughout NYC, in public venues and city parks, including screenings of African cinema and family-friendly events such as the annual Family Day Celebration on Governors Island. Learn More

Films

Adam & Howa

Sarra Idris / Sudan / 2015 / 8mins

A couple’s story becomes a metaphor for the relationship between the Sudanese diaspora who fled the country after political turmoil and those who were left behind.

The Longest Kiss / A jamais, pour toujours

Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque / Sudan and Canada / 2013 / 74mins

Facing conflicting identities, youth in north Sudan grapple with a stale dictatorship while others in south Sudan hope to start over—but at what costs? For the first time a film gives a voice to Sudanese youth from different origins, Muslims and Christians.