The 33rd African Diaspora International Film Festival is dropping over 70 movies from 30-plus countries across NYC venues like Columbia University and Cinema Village. They're running the whole thing from late November through mid-December, with both physical screenings and a virtual component for people watching from home in the States and Canada.
Director Andre Gaines is bringing his adaptation of an Amiri Baraka play called The Dutchman for the kickoff, and they're wrapping with Fanon, a biopic about the Martiniquan psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. The festival is spotlighting everything from the Siddi community's music traditions in India to banned films from the 1920s that got censored for pushing boundaries. Leslie Harris is getting honored for her 1992 movie, which made her one of the first Black women to write and direct a theatrical feature.
Tickets are running 15 bucks for regular admission, and seniors get a free screening at Columbia.
Director Andre Gaines is bringing his adaptation of an Amiri Baraka play called The Dutchman for the kickoff, and they're wrapping with Fanon, a biopic about the Martiniquan psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. The festival is spotlighting everything from the Siddi community's music traditions in India to banned films from the 1920s that got censored for pushing boundaries. Leslie Harris is getting honored for her 1992 movie, which made her one of the first Black women to write and direct a theatrical feature.
Tickets are running 15 bucks for regular admission, and seniors get a free screening at Columbia.
