Events

THE PIROGUE

Sat, Mar 9 at 8 pm Sun, Mar 10 at 6 pm $14; Students, Seniors $12; Members $10.Co-presented by the The International Organization of La Francophonie.

Best of the African Diaspora International Film Festival

2012. Moussa Touré. 87 min. Senegal/France. Color.

"Critics' Pick. A remarkably clear-eyed, quietly ambitious film. The most powerful thing about The Pirogue is the way it deals with emotionally charged events matter-of-factly, rather than melodramatically." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Senegal, a West African nation on the Atlantic Ocean, was home to Africa’s greatest movie-maker, Ousmane Sembene. Today, Moussa Touré follows in the master’s footsteps with this drama of 30 men (and one woman, a stowaway) who set out on an illegal 7-day voyage to Spain – making the perilous trip in a pirogue – a boat resembling a vastly oversized dinghy. While sharing a common desire to build a better future, these men hail from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. The story grows