Film
Sankofa
This blistering, elaborately stylized parable from LA Rebellion leader and titan of Black independent filmmaking Haile Gerima (Bush Mama) celebrates its 30th anniversary at BAM with the New York exclusive run of a new 4K restoration from Ava DuVernay’s Array.
Gerima’s landmark epic follows a self-absorbed African-American fashion model who has lost touch with her roots. While on a photo shoot in Ghana, she is spiritually transported to a plantation in the antebellum South, where she experiences the horrors of slavery—and ultimately, the redemptive power of community and rebellion. Sankofa is a beautiful and disturbing Afrocentric interrogation of the past through a contemporary lens.
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