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27th National Traveling Series

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Selected from the 2023 New York African Film Festival which was presented under the theme, "Freeforms," the films in the 2024 National Traveling Series lineup invite audiences to explore the infinite realms of African and diaspora storytelling and embrace its visionary, probing, and fearless spirit. Learn more about the films below.

If you would like to program the films in this series or for more information, please contact us: info@africanfilmny.org

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Short Films

He’s Dead Now

by Tarek El Sherbeny / Egypt / 2022 / 12mins

Hazem is distraught after his family secrets are made public when his mother decides to expose his late father’s sexual affairs during his funeral rites.

Confirmations

by Nana Duffuor / Ghana, USA / 2023 / 12mins

Amid rising social and political pressure in Ghana, a God-fearing mother wrestles with her son’s sexual identity.

Mother’s Tongue

by D. Wilmos Paul / USA / 2022 / 16mins

Junior, an African immigrant teenager ashamed of his accent, enrolls in a creative writing club thinking he can make it through the semester without speaking… and then is confronted with his worst fear.

Ota Benga

by Chadrack Banikina / Democratic Republic of the Congo / 2023 / 6mins

An animated film that captures a moment in the true-life story of Ota Benga (1883–1916), the pygmy who was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo. Desperate to return home to the rainforest in Congo but trapped in Lynchburg, Virginia, Ota Benga reflects on being bought by so-called "civilized society" and being treated like an animal. A passionate call by the fire to return to his ancestors.

Grace

by Johanna Makabi / France / 2022 / 14mins

Eight-year-old Grace hates her neighborhood, and she hates cheerleading. One day, she decides to join her father in space.

Feature Films

Xalé

by Moussa Sène Absa / Senegal and Ivory Coast / 2022 / 101mins

Dent pour Dent

by Ottis Ba Mamadou / Senegal, France and Belgium / 2022 / 84mins

Idrissa lives in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. He lost his job as a civil servant as a result of budget cuts ordered by the IMF. The day his redundancy money runs out, he is forced to live off his wife Viviane. He then searches by all means for a way to regain his pride as a man that he thinks he has lost...

Shimoni

by Angela Wamai / Kenya / 2022 / 97mins

A teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.

Nayola

by José Miguel Ribeiro / Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium and France / 2022 / 83mins

Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena, Nayola, and Yara. Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace, but Nayola has not returned.

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