Film
Sambizanga
- 9:15PM
Trailblazing director Sarah Maldoror chronicles Angola’s anti-colonialist struggle via the story of a woman’s relentless search for her husband, a liberation movement member, after he’s arrested and brutally imprisoned by the Portuguese authorities. Infused with the spirits of Fanon and Marx, Sambizanga is both a bracing dramatization of a pivotal moment in Angola’s fight for freedom and a rousing call to revolution.
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Intro by Mahen Bonetti, director/founder of the New York African Film Festival
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