African Film Festival: Centennial Legacies

We are proud to partner with The African Film Festival and Film at Lincoln Center for the 32nd African Film Festival. Centennial Legacies is this year's theme for featured shorts films.

Titles include: The Legend of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, It Was Four Years Ago, Ousmane Sembène: The Making of Ceddo, The Draughtsmen Clash, and Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom. A talkback follows with directors Leburt Bethune, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda and cultural historian Daniella Brito.

General Admission: $19

***Films will be screened at the Francesca Beale Theater at Lincoln Center.***


Photo: Portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, bibliophile" Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1900 - 1935, Malcom X in still from Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom, Actor, Dieudonné Kabongo, in The Draughtsmen Clash (Le Damier – Papa national oyé!), Ousmane Sembène still from the film The Making of Ceddo

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