The New York African Film Festival 2023 Free Forms into Film Africa
The 2023 New York African Film Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary of "free forms" at Film at Lincoln Center and Maysles Center. The festival ends as Film Africa at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: BAM.
We are at the beginning of a global renaissance of African culture and the African diaspora. This time it includes the voices and creative power of women, the very guardians of culture.
Although not in this festival, Sy, French-Senegalese filmmaker, has just had her first feature film "Banel & Adama" selected in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. This is a great moment for African and Diaspora cinema.
Streaming offers African filmmakers a wider audience than before. Senegal, the northernmost West African country, has one of the strongest film industries in Africa.
These films show a subtle cultural and narrative complexity that has largely evaporated in Hollywood. So these are not just great stories, but great movies.
The 30th New York African Film Festival 2023 showcases 30 African and Diaspora films from over 15 countries; at the Film at Lincoln Center, May 10-16, 2023. $17. $79 Unlimited access. $39 Full access for students. filmlinc.org
There's a free talk on women in African cinema honoring the late Safi Faye, a conversation with Souleymane Cissé and Martin Scorsese, and a masterclass with acclaimed Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa.
These stories are told in Arabic, Bambara, Chinese, English, French, Igbo, Kikuyu, Lingala, Portuguese, Réunion Creole, Swahili, Tigrinya, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba.
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The opening night film is "Xalé"Opening night with the New York premiere of "Xalé", the Senegalese thriller by Moussa Sène Absa, the last story in his trilogy centered on women. It was Senegal's entry in 2022 for the Oscars for "Best International Feature Film". In Wolof with subtitles.
Awa and Adama are 15-year-old twins. She dreams of school and he dreams of Europe. On the death of the grandmother who took care of them, their uncle Atoumane takes charge of the twins and marries their cousin Fatou. But Fatou doesn't want him. Atoumane vents his frustration on Awa and lives are changed.
The centerpiece movie is "Hyperlink"The Centerpiece selection is the American premiere of "Hyperlink" (2022), four short films by South African filmmakers Mzonke Maloney, Nolitha Mkulisi, Juli Nxadi and Evan Wigdorowitz. These films build stories around the seductive allure and unintended consequences of the many illusions we see and offer on the internet.
New York African Film Festival Synopsis:
"A Christian convert prepares to be reborn as a man of God, unaware that his teenage daughter, who hasn't heard from him in three months, has declared him dead on social media.< /p>
A schoolgirl has her private life made public when she invites a classmate, who is an online influencer, into her home.
A divorced man with financial problems wants to show his young daughter that he can be a good father that he doesn't see the precarious position he is in.
And a poet and commentator risks losing himself and those he loves in his desire to use his notoriety to effect social change.
In four short films, young South African filmmakers reflect on the alluring, and sometimes treacherous, illusory reality of the internet. Using humour, suspense and social critique, this collective production sketches a society dominated by idealized projections of the dream self. »
NYC Latin Movie
The 2023 New York African Film Festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary of "free forms" at Film at Lincoln Center and Maysles Center. The festival ends as Film Africa at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: BAM.
We are at the beginning of a global renaissance of African culture and the African diaspora. This time it includes the voices and creative power of women, the very guardians of culture.
Although not in this festival, Sy, French-Senegalese filmmaker, has just had her first feature film "Banel & Adama" selected in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. This is a great moment for African and Diaspora cinema.
Streaming offers African filmmakers a wider audience than before. Senegal, the northernmost West African country, has one of the strongest film industries in Africa.
These films show a subtle cultural and narrative complexity that has largely evaporated in Hollywood. So these are not just great stories, but great movies.
The 30th New York African Film Festival 2023 showcases 30 African and Diaspora films from over 15 countries; at the Film at Lincoln Center, May 10-16, 2023. $17. $79 Unlimited access. $39 Full access for students. filmlinc.org
There's a free talk on women in African cinema honoring the late Safi Faye, a conversation with Souleymane Cissé and Martin Scorsese, and a masterclass with acclaimed Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa.
These stories are told in Arabic, Bambara, Chinese, English, French, Igbo, Kikuyu, Lingala, Portuguese, Réunion Creole, Swahili, Tigrinya, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba.
africanfilmny.org
The opening night film is "Xalé"Opening night with the New York premiere of "Xalé", the Senegalese thriller by Moussa Sène Absa, the last story in his trilogy centered on women. It was Senegal's entry in 2022 for the Oscars for "Best International Feature Film". In Wolof with subtitles.
Awa and Adama are 15-year-old twins. She dreams of school and he dreams of Europe. On the death of the grandmother who took care of them, their uncle Atoumane takes charge of the twins and marries their cousin Fatou. But Fatou doesn't want him. Atoumane vents his frustration on Awa and lives are changed.
The centerpiece movie is "Hyperlink"The Centerpiece selection is the American premiere of "Hyperlink" (2022), four short films by South African filmmakers Mzonke Maloney, Nolitha Mkulisi, Juli Nxadi and Evan Wigdorowitz. These films build stories around the seductive allure and unintended consequences of the many illusions we see and offer on the internet.
New York African Film Festival Synopsis:
"A Christian convert prepares to be reborn as a man of God, unaware that his teenage daughter, who hasn't heard from him in three months, has declared him dead on social media.< /p>
A schoolgirl has her private life made public when she invites a classmate, who is an online influencer, into her home.
A divorced man with financial problems wants to show his young daughter that he can be a good father that he doesn't see the precarious position he is in.
And a poet and commentator risks losing himself and those he loves in his desire to use his notoriety to effect social change.
In four short films, young South African filmmakers reflect on the alluring, and sometimes treacherous, illusory reality of the internet. Using humour, suspense and social critique, this collective production sketches a society dominated by idealized projections of the dream self. »
NYC Latin Movie
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