Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT)
Overzicht van films
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Fluid Frontiers
Ephraim Asili | 23' | Canada | European premiere
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… -
Footprints of Pan Africanism
Shirikiana Aina | 77' | Ghana | European premiere
Robert Lee was one of the black Americans who heeded Kwame Nkrumah’s call to return home. Not only to help build up Ghana, the first… -
The Foreigner’s Home
Rian Brown, Geoff Pingree | 57' | France | World premiere
In 2006 Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison curated an exhibition in the Louvre based around Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Me -
Freak the Fxxk Out
Kanso Ogbolu | 4' | Nigeria | World premiere
Creepy figures in the shape of humans do strange things. -
Las Gidi Vice
Udoka Oyeka | 17' | Nigeria | European premiere
TJ meets a girl at a party, unaware that she is about to give him a night he will never forget. -
Got Flowers Today
Jibril Mailafia | 4' | Nigeria | None
“Even though he beat me, I got flowers today.” A touching animation based on a poem by Paulette Kelly. -
Hairat
Jessica Beshir | 7' | Ethiopia | None
At night, outside the walls of the Ethiopian city of Harar, Yussuf Mume Saleh gets together with a group of spotted hyenas. -
Harvest 3000 Years
Haile Gerima | 150' | Ethiopia | None
A poor peasant family resists a violent feudal lord. This original 16mm version of Gerima’s first Ethiopian featureis both in substance as in form a… -
Her Name in My Mouth
Onyeka Igwe | 6' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive. -
Home Movie Excerpts from Cab Calloway on Tour in South America and the Caribbean
Cab Calloway | 7' | Bahamas | None
16 mm Kodachrome silent home movies mixed with audio excerpts taken from Cab Calloway’s personal acetate master recordings and his radio quiz sh -
How Can I Ever Be Late
Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson | 5' | USA | None
African-American students at the University of Virginia welcome the band Sly and the Family Stone at Charlottesville airport in 1973. -
I Believe in Pink
Victoria Thomas | 5' | Nigeria | None
In a crowded market on the Lagos mainland, John makes men beautiful by tattooing their lips.