About this Event
If you ask BRBCC what we're up to in the month of May, there has consistently only been ONE answer...
New York African Film Festival!
NYAFF is celebrating its 30th anniversary hitting up Manhattan, Harlem, and Brooklyn amplifying the work of legends, first time filmmakers, and everyone in between. We are so grateful to co-present "Call and Response", a shorts program being screened at Lincoln Center, and want you to join us...for free!
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Okem
Joshua Okwuosa, 2022, Nigeria/USA, 15m
Okem, a Nigerian immigrant, is faced with his worst nightmare when he receives a call from home.
August Visitor
Ifeyinwa Arinze, 2022, USA, 11m
When her widowed mother has a male friend over for dinner, an observant Nigerian-American teenager acts out, which leads her to a deeper perception of her mother.
Africans with Mainframes
Kima Hibbert, 2023, USA, 15m
Africans with Mainframes is a short mockumentary following LaJoye Watkins, a reclusive Black woman living in Brooklyn. She is determined to tell a secret she has harbored all her life: electronic music was actually started by Black Southerners in the 1920s. Exploring themes of loneliness, revenge, and reclamation, Watkins takes us on a historical tour de force and a journey toward a spiritual awakening of her own.
Silsilad
Tariq Tarey, 2023, USA, 12m
The story of three Somali-American artists, founders of the Minneapolis-based artists’ collective Soomaal House of Art, and the challenges they face running a community-based gallery for BIPOC artists and organizations. Including reflections by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Mother’s Tongue
Wilmos Paul, 2022, USA, 16m
Junior, an African immigrant teenager ashamed of his accent, enrolls in a creative writing club thinking he can make it through the semester without speaking… and then is confronted with his worst fear.
A Laundry Day
Johanna Makabi, 2022, USA/France, 3m
Today, Fatou goes to the laundromat in Harlem and meets a young man.
Grace
Johanna Makabi, 2022, France, 14m
Eight-year-old Grace hates her neighborhood, and she hates cheerleading. One day, she decides to join her father in space.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Film at Lincoln Center - Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street, New York, United States
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