Multifaceted contemporary African and African-diaspora cinema with special focus on the history of the Pan-African movement as captured in film.
Films in ‘Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT)’
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Her Name in My Mouth
IFFR 2018 6′A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive.
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How Can I Ever Be Late
Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson IFFR 2018 5′African-American students at the University of Virginia welcome the band Sly and the Family Stone at Charlottesville airport in 1973.
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Hairat
Jessica Beshir IFFR 2018 7′At night, outside the walls of the Ethiopian city of Harar, Yussuf Mume Saleh gets together with a group of spotted hyenas.
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1745
Gordon Napier IFFR 2018 19′Two sisters kidnapped from their home and sold into slavery attempt to retake their freedom.