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.

Fri, May 13, 2022 at 6:30 pm

Centerpiece Night Film: Tug of War (+ Q&A with Amil Shivji) at Film at Lincoln Center - Francesca Beale Theater, New York