After the Long Rains
New York African Film Festival 2024
May 8 - 14, 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.
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Ten-year-old Aisha is given a school assignment to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realizes that everyone is taking over their parents’ businesses and professions, but she has bigger dreams: She wants to go to Europe and become an actress. Her plan is to become a fisher so that she can sail to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Despite all this, she meets a fisherman and alcoholic named Hassan, who promises to teach her how to fish.
Preceded by
Timis / Dusk
Awa Moctar Gueye, 2023, Senegal, 16m
Wolof with English subtitles
New York Premiere
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