Africa and the Diaspora: Short Films

In Person
Carlos Javier Ortiz

Tonight’s program mingles short African fiction films with documentary essays from the diaspora. Rich with the sights of Dakar, Marabout trails a police detective investigating street children, while in Senegal’s north two young cinephiles try to get into their local cinema in Samedi Cinema. In Twaaga, two brothers find that comic-book fantasies have real-life equivalents in revolution-torn 1987 Burkina Faso. Using one family’s poetic recollections, noted photojournalist Carlos Javier Ortiz crafts a moving testament to the travels and travails of the Great Migration in A Thousand Midnights, while his We All We Got shows that black history—and the fight for change—is never in the past; it is now. Jojolo, an archival rediscovery from 1966, lyrically portrays a Haitian woman’s shift from Paris’s Right Bank to its Left.

Films in this Screening

Jojolo

Lebert Bethune, Jamaica, United States, 1966

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Digital
12 mins

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Lebert Bethune

A Thousand Midnights

Carlos Javier Ortiz, United States, 2015

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B&W
Digital
12 mins

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Carlos Javier Ortiz

We All We Got

Carlos Javier Ortiz, United States, 2016

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B&W
Digital
9 mins

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Carlos Javier Ortiz

Marabout

Alassane Sy, Senegal, 2016

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French
with English subtitles

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Digital
18 mins

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African Film Festival National Traveling Series

Samedi Cinema

Mamadou Dia, Senegal, 2016

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Fulaani
Wolof
French
with English subtitles

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Digital
11 mins

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African Film Festival National Traveling Series

Twaaga

Cedric Ido, Burkina Faso, 2013

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Language

French
with English subtitles

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Digital
30 mins

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African Film Festival National Traveling Series