ADIFF New York Film Screenings - Nov. 30

1pm -

Photographer Cédrick-Isham goes out to meet French people from Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana living in mainland France, to take their portraits.

2:30pm -

Chocolate Milk explores racial inequities in birth and breastfeeding in the US by following the stories of three Black mothers in South Los Angeles over multiple years - a new mom, a WIC employee and a homebirth midwife.

4:30pm -

Moeder Suriname is a moving documentary that uses unique archive material to tell the life story of a Surinamese washerwoman, inspired by Tessa's grandmother Fansi. The life story covers the period from the abolition of slavery in 1863 to Surinamese independence in 1975. Fansi's story begins in an abandoned village where she grew up as a house help, after being given up by her white mother and black father.

6:30pm - + Q&A

Radical Black students, leftist white suburbanites, and a carousel: an untold story of the early Civil Rights Movement.

Q&A with filmmaker lana Trachtman

8:40pm -

Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2022.

During World War I, a father enlists himself in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son who was recruited against his will. Sent to the front, they find themselves facing the war together in the French colony of Senegal. Stars Omar Sy (The Intouchables, Jurassic World, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Netflix series Lupin.)

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, New York, United States