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African Film Festival

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After two years of pandemic-related cancellations or virtual screenings, we are proud to welcome the African Film Festival (AFF) back to BAMPFA. This year, open your eyes to new horizons, new heroes, and new narratives.
Jason Sanders, Film Notes Writer


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* Wednesday, September 7 at 7 PM

Neptune Frost
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Rwanda, United States, 2021

Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets. With Manu Luksch's short Algo-Rhythm.


* Thursday, September 15 at 7 PM

The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
Rosine Mbakam
Cameroon, Belgium, 2016

"The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies" (NPR), Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary.


* Sunday, September 18 at 5 PM

Women's Stories: African Short Films

Women of all ages and backgrounds drive the narratives of these short films, whether in Senegal, Sudan, South Africa, or London.


* Thursday, September 22 at 7 PM

Sarraounia
Med Hondo
Burkina Faso, Mauritania, France, 1986

A young queen leads her people against a brutal French expeditionary force in 1899 Niger in Hondo's anti-colonialist, rough-hewn epic based on the brutal true-life history of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission.


* Thursday, September 29 at 7 PM

The Promises
Hawa Aliou N'Diaye
Mali, France, Benin, 2021

N'Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who--like her--claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn.


* Sunday, October 2 at 5 PM

Min alesh?
Amleset Muchie
Ethiopia, 2019

An indomitable young woman in Addis Ababa's sprawling Merkato market finds that her running talent could lead her out of poverty in this inspiring, colorful film. Legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie cameos.


* Sunday, October 23 at 7 PM

Mrs. F
Chris van der Vorm
Nigeria, Netherlands, 2020

A hard-charging theater director/activist brings her successful play on women's empowerment into Nigeria's largest waterside slum in this eye-opening look at exactly what it takes to make a difference. With Leonard Cortana's short Marielle's Legacy Will Not Die, on the murder of an Afro-Brazilian councilwoman.


* Saturday, October 29 at 7 PM

Nolly Babes on Nollywood: Highway to the Grave
Teco Benson
Nigeria, 2000

Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu and Ruth Gebreyesus in Prerecorded Conversation
For their Black Life presentation, Nolly Babes--sisters Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu--has selected Highway to the Grave, a film that deals with indigenous mythology, superstition, and feminine power.


Image: Sarraounia
After two years of pandemic-related cancellations or virtual screenings, we are proud to welcome the African Film Festival (AFF) back to BAMPFA. This year, open your eyes to new horizons, new heroes, and new narratives.
Jason Sanders, Film Notes Writer


SCHEDULE
--------------

* Wednesday, September 7 at 7 PM

Neptune Frost
Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
Rwanda, United States, 2021

Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets. With Manu Luksch's short Algo-Rhythm.


* Thursday, September 15 at 7 PM

The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman
Rosine Mbakam
Cameroon, Belgium, 2016

"The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies" (NPR), Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary.


* Sunday, September 18 at 5 PM

Women's Stories: African Short Films

Women of all ages and backgrounds drive the narratives of these short films, whether in Senegal, Sudan, South Africa, or London.


* Thursday, September 22 at 7 PM

Sarraounia
Med Hondo
Burkina Faso, Mauritania, France, 1986

A young queen leads her people against a brutal French expeditionary force in 1899 Niger in Hondo's anti-colonialist, rough-hewn epic based on the brutal true-life history of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission.


* Thursday, September 29 at 7 PM

The Promises
Hawa Aliou N'Diaye
Mali, France, Benin, 2021

N'Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who--like her--claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn.


* Sunday, October 2 at 5 PM

Min alesh?
Amleset Muchie
Ethiopia, 2019

An indomitable young woman in Addis Ababa's sprawling Merkato market finds that her running talent could lead her out of poverty in this inspiring, colorful film. Legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie cameos.


* Sunday, October 23 at 7 PM

Mrs. F
Chris van der Vorm
Nigeria, Netherlands, 2020

A hard-charging theater director/activist brings her successful play on women's empowerment into Nigeria's largest waterside slum in this eye-opening look at exactly what it takes to make a difference. With Leonard Cortana's short Marielle's Legacy Will Not Die, on the murder of an Afro-Brazilian councilwoman.


* Saturday, October 29 at 7 PM

Nolly Babes on Nollywood: Highway to the Grave
Teco Benson
Nigeria, 2000

Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu and Ruth Gebreyesus in Prerecorded Conversation
For their Black Life presentation, Nolly Babes--sisters Tochi and Ebele Anueyiagu--has selected Highway to the Grave, a film that deals with indigenous mythology, superstition, and feminine power.


Image: Sarraounia
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