In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave trade
When a person leaves a country, it is because they are no longer able to resolve their problems with dialogue. As soon as they arrive in another culture, the transcultural dialogue starts. Sometimes it is easy, sometimes it is impossible. The stories
Read more…When a person leaves a country, it is because they are no longer able to resolve their problems with dialogue. As soon as they arrive in another culture, the transcultural dialogue starts. Sometimes it is easy, sometimes it is impossible. The stories
Read more…The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) - in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Community Affairs at Teachers College, Columbia university - hosts the Transcultural Dialogues film series featuring 19 films from 20 countri
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The ADIFF Women's History Month Film Series will be playing a selection of films celebrating films made by and celebrating women
Two girls grow up as best friends in a Quebec Innu community. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shaniss is picking up the
Read more…The African Diaspora International Film Festival invites you to celebrate the work and life of Josephine Baker, first black woman to enter France's Panthéon. French President Emmanuel Macron will host the ceremony on Nov. 30, 2021. Josephine Baker wi
Read more…Karim a Palestinian man and Sirine a French Jewish woman have to cross the border separating morocco from Algeria in order to join their band and give a concert in Oran . Because of the absurdity of the rules at the national borders, they find themse
Read more…Fevers, winner of FESPACO - Africa's largest film festival - 2015 grand prize, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, is a French version of We Need to Talk About Kevin about a disturbed young man raised on foster care who enters his father's Muslim househ
Read more…Faraw; Mother Of The Dunes (FESPACO 1997 - Winner Best Actress: Aminata Ousmane Maïga)
Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returns from prison me
Read more…FESPACO 2007 - Winner: Best Cinematography and Bronze Yennenga Stallion
Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father..
Read more…This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. “ Congo:White King, Red Rubber, Black Death” describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908.
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During World War II, Diatta (Ibrahima Sane) is a Senegalese student serving as a sergeant as his country fights alongside the French, even though that same nation raided his village and killed much of his family years earlier. Then, after finishing
Read more…"Black Hands - Trial of the Arsonist Slave" investigates slavery in Canada through the story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique, a Black enslaved woman accused of burning Montreal in 1734. After an epic trial, this untamable slave is tortured and sentenced t
Read more…The adopted son of a Quillasinga Indigenous couple in southwestern Colombia begins to rebel and drink heavily, frustrating his adopted parents. His spiritual leader gives him permission to explore his Afro-Colombian roots, and he discovers more about
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Esther is 6 years old and lives her carefree life as a little girl until her father abuses her. A little music box appears in her life and will never leave her. As she tries to get rid of it, she sees that her mother has one too; but her mother does
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