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Tug of War + Notre mémoire

"Tug of War / Vuta n’kuvute," by Amil Shivji / Tanzania, South Africa, Germany and Qatar / 2021 / 92mins / Historical Drama / Romance / English and Swahili

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Mon, May 16, 2022

2:00 pm

Film at Lincoln Center - Francesca Beale Theater
144 W 65th St
New York, NY 10023

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This event is part of the 29th NYAFF — "Visions of Freedom" Learn More

Films

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.

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