11 am • Leonard Nimoy Thalia Full Price: $11 Adults/$9 Children, Members: $8

The New York International Children's Film Festival presents two films by the hugely influential comic artist and animator Osamu Tezuka,  Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion.

1 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $10; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per screening for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Part of the 17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

Set in the forties, on the island of Curaçao a Surinam painter arrives to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary.  Conflict arises when the community is confused by the fact that the painter is black and chooses a woman of mixed origin to be his model for the painting. 

3 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $10; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per screening for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Part of the 17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

NY Premiere!

This film documents the islands' artists in their studios, homes and communities as they create vibrant pieces of art. They speak of their early influences remembering powerful matriarchs and their art teachers. Their works ranges in styles from Brent Malone to the brilliantly simple paintings of Amos Ferguson, often referred to as "the grandfather of Bahamian art."

5:30 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $15; Members $12; Seniors $14 Get two tickets per screening for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Part of the 17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

NY Premieres!

Deliverance - The Art of Ben Jones: This documentary accompanies the major retrospective of the work of visual artist Ben Jones at the Jersey City Museum, 2008 through 2009, featuring work dating from the mid-1970's through his most recent paintings and delves into his close relationship to religions of the African Diaspora, travel, family, teaching, politics and spirituality.

Mario Benjamin: In Haiti, Mario Benjamin is the leader of the Contemporary Art movement.  Besides his singular talent, he is also manic depressive. During his fits, he reaches perceptions that some artists seek through the use of drugs. The artist shares his thoughts on his work and the difficulty in being an artist in a Third World country.

7 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $10; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per screening for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Part of the 17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

Join us at Thalia Cinema for a live discussion dedicated to the exploration and  celebration of the world of painters with Ben Jones, Artist; Mario Benjamin, Artist;  Jane Steuerwald, filmmaker; Irene Lichtenstein, filmmaker; Karen Arthur, filmmaker ; Thomas Neuwirth, filmmaker.

8:30 pm • Leonard Nimoy Thalia $10; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per screening for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Part of the 17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

This film tells the life story of Lucky Kunene, a boy who wants to attend university and resorts to crime to pay his fees. After moving to Hillbrow, the run-down district near Joburg's city center, he moves into the business of hijacking buildings.