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Let’s Talk About Water & Mayors Make Movies Celebrate NY Water Week
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Please join us for a film and water program in honor of the UN Decade on Water. The screening of Aïssa Maïga's Above Water will be preceded by short films including The OECD Principles on Water Governance, Water as Leverage: Cartagena (The Netherlands), Mayors Make Movies: Nairobi, An introduction to the new World Water Film Festival and A Tribute to 30 Years of the New York African Film Festival.
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Films
Above Water / Marcher sur l’eau
Aïssa Maïga
/ Niger, France and Belgium / 2021
/ 89mins
Twelve-year-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. Her village’s efforts to construct a well bring the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.
