ADIFF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 SCREENINGS CHAPEL
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
525 West 120th Street
Conceived as an effort to alter the way African-American children see themselves and their ancestors, this docu-drama highlights the inventive and inspired contributions of African-Americans in the 1840s, the period leading to the Civil [...] Read More COWIN CENTER TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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This is the physicality of the dance; the awe of a body flowing through space, flipping, spinning, and snaking as if giving birth to a new means of self-expression. Across South African cities and townships, dance has long been a [...]Read More
Colombia's submission for the 2014 Academy Awards' Foreign Language Competition.Fri, Dec. 6 @ 10PM - Quad - Tickets Here Tomas, an Afro-Colombian teenager who fled the country's Pacific coast pushed out by the war, faces difficulties of growing up in a city of exclusion and racism. Read More
In Moussa Toure's powerful epic fiction film, Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. When he is offered to lead one of [...]
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A musical road movie, "Return to Gorée" follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music [...] Did you know that scrap metal is America's 4th largest export? Well, Hollis Wallace does, and he makes his quiet living trolling the back alleys of Seattle looking for cast-off copper, aluminum and [...] US Premiere Fri, Dec. 6 @ 5:10PM -Tickets Here "Dust" braid to memories from a writer's youth: parting with a lover and spending time with a dying grandfather. With nods to "Hiroshima Mon Amour" , "Malcom X" and " The Conformist" the [...] Read More US Premiere Fri, Dec. 6 @ 7:30PM -Tickets Here "Papilio Buddha" is the story of a group of displaced Dalits in the Western Ghats of India. Their struggle against the local powers [...] 
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RACE (RAÇA) - GALA SCREENING  ADIFF GALA Saturday, December 14 @ 8PM - Teachers College, Cowin Center Directed by Joel Zito Araújo and Megan Mylan, Brazil/USA/104 min
US Premiere In a country with the world's second largest black population and a reputation for racial harmony, black Brazilians remain nearly absent in the halls of power and history books. But things are changing. Raça follows three people on the front lines of a hauntingly familiar, yet quintessentially Brazilian, battle for equality. In the modernist capital of Brasilia, the country's only black senator fights for landmark civil rights legislation. In the fast-paced metropolis of São Paulo, a famous black pop-star launches a TV station with a cast that looks like Brazil rather than Scandinavia. And deep in the rural countryside, a granddaughter of slaves mobilizes her neighbors to defend ancestral land rights. Q&A followed by reception. TICKETS HERE  | | Raca: trailer by director Joel Zito (English subtitles) | 
Sponsored by ArtMattan Productions | AFRO-LATINO NIGHT: TANGO NEGRO & CANDOMBE ADIFF Centerpiece Screening Friday, December 13 @ 8:30pm -
Cowin Center, Teachers College  TANGO NEGRO, AFRICAN ROOTS OF TANGO
US Premiere Tango Negro, African Roots of Tango by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression of Tango's Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves that were taken to South America - including Argentina and Uruguay - mostly from central Africa, particularly from the former Kongo Kingdom. Director Dom Pedro reveals the depth of the footprints of the African music on the tango, through this rich movie combining musical performances and interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe, including the renowned Argentinean pianist Juan Carlos Caceres.
Directed by Dom Pedro, 2013, 93 min., France, Documentary , French/Spanish/ English subt. Show with  CANDOMBE
More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of slaves from Africa whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernado Nunez, a black man, a musician, and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an important social and cultural legacy from his slave forefathers. The official history and culture of Uruguay, on the other hand, which has never acknowledged this contribution to the degree which it deserves, continues to marginalize expressions of black culture. Fernando Nunez and his friends from the Barrio Sur back street quarter of Montevideo have decided to fight to keep these important cultural roots alive in the consciousness of the Uruguayan people. Directed by Rafael Deugenio, 1993, 16 min., Uruguay, Docu-drama, Spanish/ English subt. Q&A after the screening followed by catered reception Tickets: $25 TICKETS HERE  | | Tango Negro Trailer Eng Sub |
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