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KIDflix Film Fest! 2022
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Co-presented by MoCADA, the 2022 season of the KIDflix Film Fest! returns from August 12 – September 9, 2022! This year's festival is inspired by the theme Sankofa: Back to the Future! Sankofa is a word in the Twi language of Ghana meaning “to retrieve” (as such is the Adinkra symbol represented by a stylized heart shape or a bird with its head turned backward and its feet face forward carrying an egg in its mouth), to seek and take, to go back and get that which you have forgotten, that which must be returned. This year we uplift the power of Sankofa to celebrate our collective past to propel us into our future. Bring a chair or blanket, and join us for movies and ice cream by Creme & Cocoa Creamery. Films start at sunset!
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
Aug 12, 2022 at 6pm - 9pm
"Little" /
Tina Gordon
/ USA / 2019
/ 109mins
A successful but ruthless executive who looks down and torments everyone beneath her, especially her abused yet loyal assistant, gets magically transformed back into her 13-year-old self. She must now rely on the very people she bullied as she struggles to reclaim her life.
+ Fulton Park - 70 Chauncey Street between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues, Brooklyn
Aug 12, 2022 at 6pm - 9pm
"Afro Algorithms" /
Anatola Araba
/ USA / 2022
/ 14mins
In a distant future, an artificial-intelligence entity inaugurated as the world’s first AI leader finds that important worldviews are missing from her database, including stories of the historically marginalized and oppressed.
+ Fulton Park - 70 Chauncey Street between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues, Brooklyn
Aug 19, 2022 at 6pm - 9pm
"Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters" /
Bisi Adetayo
/ Nigeria / 2020
/ 80mins
When her parents' bakery is shut down in 1956, a little girl makes a wish to go back in time. Instead, she ends up in the future — as a bucket.
+ Herbert Von King Park - 670 Lafayette Avenue @ Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn
Aug 19, 2022 at 6pm - 9pm
"Into the Woods" /
Critics Company
/ Nigeria / 2022
/ 29mins
Follow three teenagers’ journey into a community forest on a quest to find diamonds in a forbidden temple that no one has ever seen only heard of. The scare and hunt begin when the forest begins to haunt them. Will they ever get out?
+ Herbert Von King Park - 670 Lafayette Avenue @ Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn
Sep 2 - 6, 2022
"Adama" /
Simon Rouby
/ France / 2015
/ 82mins
The coming-of-age tale of a young West African boy searching for his brother, just as a new world is about to emerge from the chaos of war.
+ Cinema Awujo (Online)
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Sep 9, 2022 at 6pm - 9pm
"The Wiz" /
Sidney Lumet
/ USA / 1978
/ 134mins
Featuring an all-star cast, The Wiz follows Dorothy and her dog, Toto as they are transported to the mysterious Land of Oz, where she is informed that the only possible way to find her way back home is through the assistance of the powerful wizard in the Emerald City.
+ Come dressed as your favorite The Wiz character for the dance party/screening and join us at 6:30pm for a double dutch workshop led by Malika Lee Whitney! Herbert Von King Park - 670 Lafayette Avenue @ Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn
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