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Centerpiece Night Film: Tug of War
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"Tug of War / Vuta n’kuvute," by Amil Shivji / Tanzania, South Africa, Germany and Qatar / 2021 / 92mins / Historical Drama / Romance / English and Swahili
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Amil Shivji's stunning, award-winning adaptation of Adam Shafi's Swahili novel, Tug of War, screens as the Centerpiece Night film of the 29th New York African Film Festival. New York Premiere Preceded by Notre mémoire by Johanna Makabi.
Special programming
Q&A with Amil Shivji
Films
Tug of War / Vuta n’kuvute
Amil Shivji
/ Tanzania, South Africa, Germany and Qatar / 2021
/ 92mins
Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar.
Notre mémoire
Johanna Makabi
/ France / 2021
/ 12mins
Mbissine Thérèse Diop played the starring role in Ousmane Sembène’s landmark first feature, 1966’s Black Girl (La Noire de…). Today, she looks back on her experience as a Black actress in the 1960s.
