Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
Fight Like a Girl
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April 11, 2024
Starring Ama Qamata and Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Fight Like a Girl depicts the true story of a young Congolese woman who finds liberation after joining an all-women’s boxing club in Goma, led by an ex-child-soldier coach.
Dynamite
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April 11, 2024
Kiki, a musician lost in an unhappy marriage to her controlling husband-manager Mark, finds herself in a whirlwind romance when she meets Kofi, a replacement bassist for her band, forcing her to make an impossible decision. Preceded by Peter Oti Asamoah’s Last Night.
DELA: The Making of El Anatsui
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April 11, 2024
This biographical documentary delves into the life of an extraordinary artist, El Anatsui, the world-renowned sculptor from Ghana, and triumphantly acknowledges the importance of Africa’s rich artistic and cultural heritage in the pantheon of global contemporary art.
La Chapelle
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 11, 2024
Congolese filmmaker Jean-Michel Tchissoukou’s comedy, set in 1930s Congo, depicts the tensions between African pre-colonial religions and the Catholic Church over the construction of a chapel. Preceded by Francis Y. Brown’s Jabari.
After the Long Rains
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 11, 2024
Ten-year-old Aisha wants to become a fisher so she can sail to Europe and become an actress, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. One day Aisha meets a fisherman who decides to teach her how to fish. Preceded by Awa Moctar Gueye’s Timis.
Dilli Dark
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 11, 2024
Michael Okeke, a Nigerian student living in New Delhi, wants to get his MBA and settle in India, but his part-time job gives him a dubious double life in a city notoriously difficult for outsiders.
Over the Bridge
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 11, 2024
Folarin is an accomplished investment banker with a beautiful wife and a life most people can only dream of. When a high-profile government project his company was hired to manage goes awry, he discovers himself in a remote fishing village and starts to put together the missing pieces—but will he ever find his way back home?
Program 10: Downtown Counternarratives
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
A firm highlight of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s collection is the sheer number of works that partake in, document, and celebrate the other arts. This selection of films roams across the 1960s to explore a variety of novel activities emerging from the world of avant-garde art in New York during this period.
Program 9: Nature and Nonhuman Animals
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
These films on the roles of animals and nature amid the rise and expansion of New York City include Christy Rupp’s playful video essay City Wildlife: Mice, Rats, Roaches, Marie Menken’s frenetic waterfront tour Excursions, and Leo Hurwitz’s Here at the Water’s Edge, a poetic and political examination of Manhattan’s relation to the great waters that border it.
Program 8: Off to the Beach: Coney Island
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
These short works depict Coney Island from the 1920s to the present, tracing the history of its boom-and-bust cycle of decay and rebirth, and capturing its unique visual vocabulary of hand-painted carny banners, fantastical architecture, and glowing neon signage.