The final day of Black History Month Films brings you four masterpieces of African films.

3:00pm    Le Franc - Djibril Diop Mambety (45 mins/English subtitles)

This is a whimsical but sardonic parable about the plight of everyday Africans buffeted by the changing winds of the international monetary system.  

5:00pm    La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil/The Little Girl who sold the Sun - Djibril Diop Mambety (1999) (45 mins/English subtitles)

This is a simple tale of a crippled, yet resilient little girl fighting for her economic independence against an unjust marketplace as a metaphor for Africa’s struggle to survive in an increasingly globalized economy.  

7:00pm    Touki Bouki - Djibril Diop Mambety (1973) (85 mins/English subtitles)

Alienated from their society in Senegal, young lovers Mory and Anta fantasize about freedom far from the dusty streets of their hometown of Dakar.  

8:30pm    Lumumba - Raoul Peck (115 Mins)

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. 

Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, Cave Hill

Event Information:
February 9th, 2008
Free Event

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