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Join us for an afternoon screening of Horace Ové’s Pressure (1975). Ové’s fiction-film debut marks a watershed in the history of British cinema: the nation’s first feature to be written and directed by a Black filmmaker and the first to […]

Join us for an afternoon screening of Flora Gomes’ Mortu Nega (1988). Flora Gomes’ debut feature is a stirring and thought-provoking meditation on revolution and its effects, following the end and difficult aftermaths of the guerrilla war that brought independence

Join us for an afternoon screening of Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (1973). A revolutionary bombshell by one of Africa’s first female directors, Maldoror’s electrifying chronicle of Angola’s awakening independence movement is a stirring hymn to those who risked everything in the

Join us for an afternoon screening of Timite Bassori’s La femme au couteau (The Woman with the Knife) (1969). From the Ivory Coast comes this daring 1969 drama that reflects the culture at a postcolonial crossroads. The unnamed male protagonist

Join us for an afternoon screening of Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl (1966). Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut

Join us for an afternoon screening of Djibril Diop Mambety’s Touki Bouki (1973). With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French

Join us for an afternoon screening of Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979). Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage, director Med Hondo investigates more than three centuries of imperialist oppression in