Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise of violence in Haiti, Freda and her family wonders whether to stay or leave, but Freda is determined to believe in the future of her country.

Passion and revolution ensues in this coming-of-age political love story involving a young freedom fighter set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Preceded by Johanna Makabi’s Notre mémoire.

Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako & Damon Albarn, frontman of Blur & the band Gorillaz, join forces to create an opera about the history of Africa. Preceded by Shaka – iNkosi Yamakhosi.

Ayaanle is a 21-year-old who aspires to become an actor. His life is turned upside down after a series of events that lead him to become the most wanted man in Kenya, linked with terrorist activities across East Africa.

Samb-Makharam uses the griot as the nexus of multiple stories drawing from Senegal’s collective memory. To inspire striking workers, the griot tells of two legends who both became heroes to their people.

Shot in Belgium and the DRC, Juwaa is a subtly powerful drama offering African characters rarely seen on screens. Years after a traumatic night, a son and a mother reconcile and slowly peel away the layers of their complex relationship.

When 12-year-old Houlaye’s aunt Suri convinces an NGO to build a well in the village, it brings the promise of renewal for those men and women who, unknowingly, had been walking on water all their lives.

JP, a failed 40-year-old actor, decides to organize the first large-scale Black solidarity march in France. But he finds himself torn between his desire to be in the limelight & his commitment as an activist.

Chronicles the birth, rise, and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Preceded by John Ogunmuyiwa’s Precious Hair & Beauty.

A collection of short films from Mayors Make Movies, an initiative by Let’s Talk About Water, which promotes participation in water policy in cities across the African continent.

A collection of short films featuring intimate stories told through the lenses of filmmakers living in New York.

A collection of short films with reflections on history, memory, and personal narratives in South Africa.

Led by renowned Ethiopian filmmaker, Haile Gerima, the master class will center on the content, form, and aesthetics of liberation cinema, empowering one’s particular narrative logic and more.

A solo exhibition featuring an experimental, durational moving image meditation by Nigerian-American artist, Zainab Aliyu, foregrounding anthems of celebration across the diaspora and transversing borders to fabricate an infinite, pan-African chorus of shared somatic vibrations.

An honest but empathetic account of postpartum depression through the eyes of the mother, Derin, her mother-in-law, and her husband.

Guled & Nasra are a loving couple facing hard times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery. Guled works as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how can they find the money to keep the family together?

Juju Stories explores juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories following an unmarried woman, a street urchin, and a young college woman.

A program of shorts evoking the sounds of liberation, self-expression, and love.