Saturday, November 24
| Return to GorĂ©e African Diaspora Film Fes Return to Gorée, tells of African singer, Youssou N'Dour and the epic journey he takes following the original path of the Atlantic slave trade in order to retrieve traditional jazz music and bring it back to Africa. See More... |
| Silent Stories African Diaspora Film Fes
Silent Stories offers a beautifully shot, quiet and poetic portrait of two men and two women whose sexual identity forced them to leave Dakar, Algiers, Conakry and Baghdad. No mere film about pain and sorrow but rather one that is filled with hope and oxygen and that explores the unknown color of tomorrow. See More... |
| La Playa D.C. African Diaspora Film Fes The story of Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who, like hundreds of other black Colombians, is forced to flee the civil war-torn Pacific Coast for Bogota. In Bogota, soft spoken and lanky Tomas faces racism and exclusion and is forced to mature under the weight of new responsiblities. When Jairo, his younger brother and closest friend disappears, Tomas is forced to plunge into the streets of the city to find him. See More... |
| Dignity African Diaspora Film Fes
On October 1947, rail workers of the French colonies in West Africa went on strike for five months. The main focus of the strike was in Thiès, a rail junction in Senegal. Dignity is a riveting fictional film tracing the human struggle associated with both the organization and defense of this strike. See More... |









