FILM SERIES
FilmAfrica
Looking back at the decade-plus history of FilmAfrica at BAM, this series gathers recent work with hits from past festivals to celebrate the incredible cinema New York African Film Festival brings to BAM each year during DanceAfrica, the nation’s largest festival dedicated to African dance and music. This year’s film lineup includes TGV, Hot Irons, and Don't F*** With Me, I Have 51 Brothers and Sisters, along with other features and two short film programs.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for the BAM Hamm Archives and BAM Film, Community, and Education programs provided by The Thompson Family Foundation Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation
Passengers traveling by bus between Senegal and Guinea face a revolt at the border.
A blind mystic guides Kapila—born during an eclipse, so feared and abandoned—back home.
Three mercenaries go into hiding in Dakar, where devastating secrets are revealed.
An international race offers Selam, a passionate runner, the chance to achieve her dreams.
Short films from Sudan, Senegal, England, South Africa, and more.
Patriarchy and religion complicate the staging of a play about gender inequality in Nigeria.
Innocent love and friendship between children in Senegal reveal cultural and class divides.
Stories of extravagant hair styling from Detroit and Rwanda.
Pure separation comedy: Traditional African man copes with his wife's extra-marital affair.
N’Diaye interviews Malian women who claim to be possessed by spirits known as jinn.
Kongo Congo, a writer living in Brussels, weaves Congolese history with Belgium’s ghosts.
In this comedy of errors, a bus driver loses psych patients and tries to cover it up.
Dumisani Phakathi documents finding his 51 siblings and grieving his father in South Africa.
These shorts take us from a village in Ethiopia to the streets of Marseille, and beyond.
The son of a village imam must choose between a life of tradition or a life of free will.