Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT)
Overview of films
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Cook Off
Single mother Anesu has been signed up for a cooking contest by her son and best friend. It’s anything but exotic: universal themes such as love or it
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The Foreigner’s Home
In 2006 Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison curated an exhibition in the Louvre based around Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Me
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How Can I Ever Be Late
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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Stories of Our Lives
Stories of love that can only be lived and shared in secret. Anyone identifying as LGBTQI in Kenya risks a heavy penalty – possibly even a death
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Fluid Frontiers
Powerful final part in the series of films in which Asili studies his relationship to the African diaspora. Will be screened both as part of Bright Fu
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Malcolm X Liberation University
The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the Africa
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August 28th: A Day in the Life of a People
Ava DuVernay’s short film looks at six significant events in African-American history that all occurred on that date in different years.
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Her Name in My Mouth
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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When
Through confronting language and graphic animation, When points out the constantly growing inequality in the world.
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Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta
The remarkable story about the lifework of Senegalese scientist Cheikh Anta Diop who studied philosophy, physics, chemistry, history and linguist
