Images of Africa Archives - MSP Film

IMAGES of AFRICA:

MSP Film presents IMAGES of AFRICA, a screening series celebrating Minnesota’s African Diaspora communities through the lens of international cinema..

IMAGES of AFRICA programming is incorporated into MSP Film’s various festivals and film series, including Lumières Françaises, Cine Latino, and MSPIFF, with additional screenings throughout the year at The Main Cinema and with community partners.

IMAGES of AFRICA is supported by the MN Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

Images of Africa Archive

2025

Images of Africa

The Village Next to Paradise

Tuesday, Jul 1st

Images of Africa Special Engagement from Friday, June 27 through Tuesday, July 1 MSPIFF44 Official Selection ABOUT THE FILM In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Mamargade is a jack-of-all-trades in Paradise, a town in the war-torn Somali countryside. With his […]

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Cinema Club: Assembly

2025

Cinema Club

Images of Africa

New Releases

Cinema Club: Assembly

Saturday, Jun 14th

June Cinema Club • Images of Africa Saturday, June 14 at 11:00am Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Maija Garcia, a theater director, cultural innovator and advocate for equity in the arts. Cinema Club screenings are FREE for MSP Film Society Members. Not a Member? Join here. More info on Cinema […]

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2025

Cinema Club

Images of Africa

Cinema Club: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Saturday, Mar 8th

March Cinema Club + Images of Africa International Women’s Day • Saturday, March 8 at 11:00am Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Dr. Ramon A. Fonkoué, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, whose research focuses on subjectivity and collective memory in literature and film in Africa and its diaspora. Cinema […]

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Dahomey

2025

Black Europe Film Festival

Cinema Club

Images of Africa

Dahomey

Saturday, Jan 11th

Images of Africa + Cinema Club January Cinema Club Saturday, January 11 at 11:00am Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation following the screening with Dr. Laura Kalba, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota. Her research and teaching focus on the history of fine, decorative and […]

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Know Your Place

2024

Images of Africa

Know Your Place

Thursday, Dec 12th

Images of Africa 7:00pm is SOLD OUT! — 7:10pm Screening Added! ABOUT THE FILM In this debut feature by Writer-Director Zia Mohajerjasbi; Robel Haile, an Eritrean-American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents’ homeland. He enlists the […]

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Dhalinyaro + Laan

2024

Images of Africa

Dhalinyaro + Laan

Saturday, Nov 23rd

Images of Africa Presenting two films by Djibouti-Canadian filmmaker Lula Ali Ismaïl: Dhalinyaro (Youth) preceded by her short film Laan (Friends) ABOUT DHALINYARO (YOUTH) Director: Lula Ali Ismaïl • Djibouti, France • 85 min • 2018 • Somali, French • Fiction Asma, Deka and Hibo could not be more different from each other: they come […]

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

2024

Images of Africa

Sound Unseen Film Festival

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Thursday, Nov 14th

25th Sound Unseen Film Festival Thursday, November 14 at 7:30pm ABOUT THE FILM This Sundance award winner explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided, constructing a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. United Nations, 1961: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, […]

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La Suprema

2024

Cine Latino

Images of Africa

La Suprema

Sunday, Oct 13th

Closing Film – 12th Cine Latino Film Festival Sunday, October 13 at 7:30pm Special Guest: Executive Producer Tere Gaviria attending! ABOUT THE FILM La Suprema is a remote town in the interior of the Colombian Caribbean. Anastasio “Medialuna” a boxer who left the town years ago is about to fight for the world title. Living […]

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Capri First Thursday Films: The Last Supper (La última cena)

2024

First Thursday Films @ the Capri

Images of Africa

Capri First Thursday Films: The Last Supper (La última cena)

Thursday, Oct 3rd

Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 PM | Capri Theater Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Conversation Leader: August H. Nimtz, Ph.D. – Professor of political science and African American and African studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. ABOUT THE FILM Set in 18th-century Cuba, a […]

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Goodbye Julia

2024

Images of Africa

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

Goodbye Julia

Sunday, Sep 29th

18th Arab Film Festival CLOSING NIGHT AT THE WALKER ART CENTER Sunday, September 29 at 7pm Mizna’s 18th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival closes with a pair of special screenings and a reception catered by Baba’s co-presented with the Walker Art Center. Closing reception will be held in the Bazinet lobby before the film with […]

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Tajouje

2024

Images of Africa

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

Tajouje

Thursday, Sep 26th

18th Arab Film Festival Thursday, September 26 7pm, Gathering8pm, Outdoor Film GATHERING UNDER THE BRIDGE: Join us beginning at 7:00pm under the Third Avenue Bridge, outside of the Main Cinema. Festival sponsors Baba’s Hummus will have a food truck and Batroun Wines will serve Lebanese wine for a suggested donation + DJ Jacques will be […]

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Revolutionary Tales Shorts Segment

2024

Images of Africa

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

Revolutionary Tales Shorts Segment

Thursday, Sep 26th

18th Arab Film Festival FREE for Students REVOLUTIONARY TALES FROM SUDAN Revolutionary Tales is an in-person and virtual program guest-curated by Sudanese filmmaker Rafa Renas. This series of films depicts various perspectives and revolutionary currents in Sudan’s recent history. ABOUT THE FILMS The Spider-man of Sudan Dir. Rafa Renas and Phil Cox • 2022 […]

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Mother of George

2024

Images of Africa

Mother of George

Saturday, Aug 17th

Images of Africa ABOUT THE FILM Adenike and Ayodele (The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira and veteran actor Isaach De Bankolé) are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child – a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural […]

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Mambar Pierrette

2024

Images of Africa

Mambar Pierrette

Saturday, Aug 17th

Images of Africa ABOUT THE FILM Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam (Chez Jolie Coiffure, Delphine’s Prayers) has distinguished herself for her quietly observational documentary portraits of African women. With Mambar Pierrette, her feature narrative debut, Mbakam turns her documentarian’s eye to the eponymous Pierrette, a gifted seamstress who works to support her young children and […]

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Supa Modo

2024

Images of Africa

Supa Modo

Saturday, Aug 17th

Images of Africa ABOUT THE FILM Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a Superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective […]

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Sisterhood (HLM Pussy)

2024

Images of Africa

Lumières Françaises

Sisterhood (HLM Pussy)

Thursday, Jul 18th

Lumières Françaises • Images of Africa ABOUT THE FILM Despite their different social backgrounds, Amina, Djeneba, and Zineb have been friends for as long as they can remember. When Zineb experiences harassment from her brother’s best friend, Amina decides to post a compromising video of him on social media, hoping he will stop. Little does […]

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Red Island (L’île rouge)

2024

Images of Africa

Lumières Françaises

Red Island (L’île rouge)

Wednesday, Jul 17th

Lumières Françaises • Images of Africa ABOUT THE FILM Living on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970’s Madagascar, 10-year old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family’s blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero […]

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Black Girl + Borom Sarret

2024

Cinema Club

Images of Africa

Lumières Françaises

Black Girl + Borom Sarret

Tuesday, Jul 16th

Lumières Françaises • Images of Africa July Cinema Club Screening: Saturday, July 13 at 11:00am Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Patricia Lorcin, Professor Emerita of History, U of MN, with expertise in race and gender in France and its colonies; and in western imperialism, colonialism, and post-colonial studies. Cinema Club […]

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Sembene!

2024

Images of Africa

Lumières Françaises

Sembene!

Tuesday, Jul 16th

Lumières Françaises • Images of Africa ABOUT THE FILM In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. Sembene! tells the unbelievable true story of the father of African cinema, the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, […]

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Metamorphosis – Short Films

2024

Images of Africa

Lumières Françaises

Metamorphosis – Short Films

Sunday, Jul 14th

Lumières Françaises • Images of Africa Quartiers Lointains • 4 Short Films How can we best exist in societies that are both ours and yet other? How to best navigate institutions that are not always equipped to deal with the issues we face? How to find mystical or rational remedies to heal our wounds? These […]

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