The Couple Next Door

Abbesi Akhamie / USA / 2020 / 11mins

A single woman’s feelings of loneliness begin to stir when an eccentric African couple moves in next door to her.

Frieda

Tisa Chigaga / USA / 2022 / 8mins

An older undocumented migrant is summarily dismissed from her housekeeping position. Cast into desperate uncertainty, she roams the city in despair.

+ World Premiere

A Lisbon Affair

Hoji Fortuna / Portugal and Croatia / 2021 / 14mins

Waldo and Shey are in love. Waldo, who lives in Berlin, travels to Lisbon to meet Shey. Their encounter will test the emotional strength of their bond and expose uncertainties about their Afro-Portuguese cultural and historical identities.

+ New York Premiere

Nkemefuna / What is Mine Cannot Be Lost

Kaelo Iyizoba / USA / 2021 / 15mins

Nkem and her brother are struggling through the anniversary of their father’s death, when an encounter forces them to confront their identity in America.

+ World Premiere

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.

Menes De Griot: Baba Mpho Shanto, Keeper of the Kulture

AnAkA / USA / 2022 / 12mins

This short film is the beginning of a larger project documenting Baba Mpho Shanto, AKA Menes De Griot. A culture keeper of our time, Baba Mpho is actively preserving African traditions in the global community.

+ World Premiere

Egúngún / Masquerade

Olive Nwosu / Nigeria and UK / 2021 / 14mins

Salewa must return home for her mother’s funeral, to Lagos, a place where she once had to hide herself. At the funeral, she runs into an important person from her past, and is forced to go in search of her own peace.