By African Film Festival
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African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) have again joined forces for the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF). The 32nd NYAFF will present 51 features and shorts films at BAM Rose Cinemas as FilmAfrica — the companion to the beloved DanceAfrica festival, long considered the unofficial start to summer in Brooklyn.
Featuring more than 125 contemporary and classic films from Africa and its diaspora screening throughout the full festival. Many filmmakers will be in attendance for post-screening Q&As.
This year’s theme, “Fluid Horizons: A Shifting Lens on a Hopeful World,” honors the resilience of African youth and the forebearers who paved the way for them. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has been at the forefront of showcasing African and diaspora filmmakers’ unique storytelling through the moving image.
The Opening Night selection at BAM is the North American premiere of So Long a Letter, the film adaptation of the groundbreaking 1979 award-winning feminist novel by Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. The screening will be followed by an Opening Night Party.
The festival, which opened earlier this month at Film at Lincoln Center before moving to the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, runs at BAM May 23 to 29. NYAFF culminates with a free outdoor screening at St. Nicholas Park in Harlem on Saturday, May 31.
