15th Annual New York African Film Festival
The 15th Annual New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) started yesterday, April 9, in New York and will run through May 26th. The festival features over 40 films from 22 African countries.
The films in this year’s festival emphasize history and storytelling, technology and the future. This year’s theme, “Cinema and History: Africa and the Future,” will mark the 50th anniversary of the independence of Guinea from colonial rule and will feature footage of this independence as captured by Russian archival footage.
Among this year’s films are:
Cuba: An African Odyssey (France), which examines events surrounding Che Guevara’s military campaign in Africa. Over 300,000 Cubans fought alongside African revolutionaries in one of the Cold War’s fiercest battles over resources and ideology.
Goodbye Mothers (Morocco), expected to ignite controversy in Morocco, deals with the peaceful coexistence of two families– one Muslim, one Jewish– during the 1960s “Black Years of Immigration” in Morocco. The showing at NYAFF will be this film’s New York debut.
Juju Factory (Democratic Republic of Congo) follows the journey of Kongo as he writes a travel book that is filled with threads of Congolese history, Belgium’s ghosts, and the afflicted people he meet on his journey.
This year the film festival is divided between four venues:
- April 9-15 Film Society of Lincoln Center
- April 14 Columbia University
- May 6, 7, 13, 30, &27 French Institute-Alliance Française
- May 23-26 BAMcinématek
For more information, including the full schedule of films, ticket and venue information, visit the African Film Festival New York website.
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