Nigerian actor Samuel Abiola Robinson stars in the role of Michael Okeke.
Michael Okeke is a metaphor for every outsider, whether he is an Indian or foreigner in any society.
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The first edition of the New York African Film Festival took place in 1993.
(L-R) ‘Mirah,’ ‘After the Long Rains,’ ‘Fight Like a Girl,’ ‘Dynamite’ and ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’Film at Lincoln Center/African Film Festival Inc
See the full lineup below.
The festival lineup makes space for fiction and nonfiction films.
The opening-night film will be presented at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Weve had these programs now 25, 30, 40 years.
Theyre terrific,Lesli Klainberg, president of Film at Lincoln Center, tells Deadline.
Thats what were here for.
Screenings: Wednesday, May 8 at 6:30pm Q&A with Tolu Ajayi.
Thursday, May 9 at 2:00pm
Closing Night
Dilli Dark
Dibakar Das Roy, 2023, India, 100m.
It is a city that is multicultural, yet hostileforever playing out the battle between insider and outsider.
Preceded by
Timis / Dusk
Awa Moctar Gueye, 2023, Senegal, 16m.
Rumor has it he tortures little thieves, runaways, and naughty children.
Screenings: Sunday, May 12 at 1:00pm Q&A with Damien Hauser.
Monday, May 13 at 2:30pm
La Chapelle
Jean-Michel Tchissoukou, 1980, Congo, 80m.
Brown, 2023, Ghana, 6m.
Screening: Sunday, May 12 at 3:30pm
Dynamite
Uche Aguh, 2023, Ghana, 60m.
This gripping tale will keep you on the edge of your seat until the shocking finale.
The young guerilla fighters of yesteryear are now aging veterans.
How will history remember them?
Siji Awoyinka, 2024, U.S., 12m.
English and Swahili with English subtitles
U.S.
When their escape from a heist goes wrong, Stevo is separated from the gang.
Luckily, hes the one carrying the loot.
Joe, a small-town abattoir worker, leads us on this allegorical journey.
Joe is forced to fight off the avaricious townsfolk or lose all he has worked for.
Their discussion highlights enduring tensions surrounding social transformation, cultural property, and who has the right to representation.
Mangata
Maja Costa, 2023, Germany/Italy, 16m.
Many years later, as an astronaut on an important lunar mission, Alya loses communication with her base.
For Those That Lived There
Shawn Antoine II, 2023, U.S., 6m.
The Prophecy
Rehanna Ngom, 2023, Senegal/U.S., 20m.
The Last Bash
Diego de Jesus, 2023, Brazil, 24m.
Portuguese with English subtitles
Young people gather for a party before going into COVID-19 lockdown.
The Wait
Imran Hamdulay, 2023, South Africa, 15m.
The station is busy and the old man is confused with no one to assist him.
The Last Joint
Devin Powell, 2024, U.S., 7m.
English
Iman indulges in a last joint before he takes a tolerance break.
Once all of the herbs are gone, his phone starts to blow up.
Through this journey Iman learns if the collapse of his discipline was worth it.
Jeanne
Antoine Paley, 2023, France, 12m.
But she refuses to remain silenced.
In this short we see April 27, 1842: a day in the life of Duval and Baudelaire.
Mirah
Ahmed Samir, 2024, Egypt/Germany, 18m.
Papi
Ashley L. Canfield, 2024, U.S., 23m.
Addis, My Father
Kitoko Diva, 2023, France/U.S., 8m.
Black Dreams
Chiemeka Offor, 2024, U.S., 16m.
Black Dreams is evidence of our magic.
Siblings Kamnonu and Ogbonna face danger when they defy the Monday restrictions.
I Promise You Paradise
Morad Mostafa, 2023, Egypt, 25m.
Arabic with English subtitles
Bege (Yearning)
Umar Turaki, 2023, Nigeria, 14m.
As the conversation unfolds, they acknowledge the things that time has made plain.
Cape Town Royalty Program
Max Fouchee, 2023, South Africa, 7m.
Were
Dolapo Marinho, 2023, Nigeria, 24m.
Pidgin and Yoruba with English subtitles
A homeless woman relies on the kindness of a stranger to survive.
Where My Memory Began
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, 2023, Sierra Leone, 9m.
Krio with English subtitles
Where My Memory Beganfollows elder Ballu as she tries to remember a 400-year-old cotton tree.
