Film
Aya of Yop City
New York premiere
Sat, Mar 29, 2014
- 4:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 85min
RATED: NR
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
MEMBERS: $8 (Movie Moguls free)
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$10 (29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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March 2014
Saturday March 29, 2014
Performances no longer available.
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2014
series New Voices in Black Cinema
Directed by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie | 2012
Based on Marguerite Abouet’s popular graphic novel series about her life in 1970s post-colonial Cote d’Ivoire, this animated film chronicles the story of 19-year-old Aya and her friends Adjoua and Bintou, who live in the working-class neighborhood of Abidjian (renamed Yop City). While Aya would like to become a doctor one day, her friends are more interested in nightclubbing at the local maquis and hunting for a husband. A comedy filled with diverse voices and characters, Aya of Yop City is a portrait of modern urban Africa.