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FilmAfrica 2021
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This event is part of the 28th NYAFF — "Notes from Home: Recurring Dreams & Women's Voices" Learn More
Presented by BAM and AFF, Inc., the cinematic companion to this year’s virtual DanceAfrica celebration showcases the best new narrative, documentary, and short films from across Africa and the diaspora, with a special focus on films from and about Haiti.
Videos
FilmAfrica 2021 Trailer
Films
Seeds: Black Women in Power
Éthel Oliveira & Júlia Mariano
/ Brazil / 2020
/ 105mins
In response to the execution of activist Marielle Franco, the 2018 elections in Brazil became one of the biggest political upheavals led by Black women the country has ever seen, with candidacies in all states.
Mrs. F.
Chris van der Vorm
/ Nigeria / 2019
/ 77mins
In Makoko, the largest slum on water in Nigeria, Mrs. F. sets out to unite women by staging a play called Hear Word, an empowerment project based on true stories.
Toussaint Louverture
Philippe Niang
/ France and Haiti / 2012
/ (90min x 2 episodes) 180mins
As a child, Toussaint Louverture is marked forever when he sees his father, an old slave, judged unproductive and thrown into the harbor. As an adult and a free man, Louverture leads the slave revolt that results in the independence of Haiti.
Ayiti Mon Amour
Guetty Felin
/ Haiti / 2016
/ 88mins
Set 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 the Eye of the Spiral / Dans L'oeil de la Spirale
Eve Blouin & Raynald Leconte
/ Haiti, UK and USA / 2014
/ 111mins
In the Eye of the Spiral details an artistic and philosophical movement born in Haiti called Spiralism, which has spread across the arts, touching upon spirituality and even politics.
Real Maravilloso
Raynald Leconte
/ Cuba / 2019
/ 60mins
Real Maravilloso (RM) is Marvelous Realism: it is a way of life in Cuba, when the possibilities of being are open to the unexpected and magical existence.
Meurtre à Pacot / Murder in Pacot
Raoul Peck
/ Haiti / 2014
/ 130mins
When their Port-au-Prince villa is severely damaged in the devastating 2010 earthquake, a wealthy couple must renovate the house immediately or have it demolished.
Matwetwe / Wizard
Kagiso Lediga
/ South Africa / 2018
/ 84mins
On New Year's Eve, two best friends try to score a huge deal, dodge a gangster and his violent minions, get the girl, and ultimately save their lives.
The Mercy of the Jungle
Joël Karekezi
/ Belgium and France / 2018
/ 91mins
At the outbreak of the Second Congo War, with only each other to rely on, two Rwandan soldiers embark on an odyssey through one of the most beautiful, yet treacherous forests on earth, faced with the depths of their own war-torn souls.
Jojolo
Lebert Bethune
/ Jamaica, France and USA / 1966
/ 12mins
A subtle study of cultural identity following a graceful young woman of Haitian descent who works as a fashion model and actress in cosmopolitan Paris.
Tezen
Shirley Bruno
/ Haiti and France / 2016
/ 26mins
A restless girl meets a spirit who gives her pure water. Her family devours the delicious water until they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste.
In the Heart of Vivianne Gauthier
Marie-Claude Fournier
/ Haiti / 2017
/ 12mins
A unique, strong, disciplined and energetic woman, Vivianne Gauthier, choreographer and dance teacher led her life as she pleased, marking the cultural history of her country, Haiti.
Al-Sit
Suzannah Mirghani
/ Sudan and Qatar / 2020
/ 20mins
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad.
The Prophetess
Sylvie Weber
/ Democratic Republic of the Congo and Germany / 2018
/ 22mins
The Prophetess is a story of overcoming struggle through gumption and sisterhood. Furaha and Venantie have survived physical and psychological traumas we could never imagine.
Razana
Haminiaina Ratovoarivony
/ Madagascar / 2018
/ 15mins
Solo is Malagasy, Parisian and homosexual. In order to fulfill the last wishes of his deceased partner, Solo returns to Madagascar to meet with his estranged “in-laws”.