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African Short Film Series
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"Farewell Meu Amor," by Ekwa Msangi / Tanzania and USA / 2016 / 10mins / Drama / English
Details
As part of the Downtown Dinner and a Movie series, African Film Festival is proud to partner with Cinema Connex on Staten Island for an exciting film program. Doors open an hour before the screenings. A Q&A with the filmmakers will take place after each screening.
Special programming
Q&A with filmmakers
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Films
Farewell Meu Amor
Ekwa Msangi
/ Tanzania and USA / 2016
/ 10mins
On the morning of the long-awaited reunion with his exiled family, a man is faced with the heartbreak of a different type—of parting from his lover.
Soko Sonko / The Market King
Ekwa Msangi
/ Kenya and USA / 2014
/ 22mins
Soko Sonko is a hilarious, fish-out-of-water roller coaster of a journey, about a well-intended dad who goes where no man has gone before...because only women have been there!
Hairat
Jessica Beshir
/ Ethiopia / 2016
/ 7mins
For the past 35 years, Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas.
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