Images of Africa Archives

IMAGES of AFRICA:

MSP Film presents IMAGES of AFRICA, a year-long screening series celebrating Minnesota’s diverse African Diaspora community through the lens of international cinema.

IMAGES of AFRICA programming will be 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 our community partners.

IMAGES of AFRICA is generously supported by the MN Humanities Center and the State of Minnesota.

2024

Cine Latino

La Suprema

Sunday, Oct 13th

Closing Film – 12th Cine Latino Film Festival Sunday, October 13 at 7:30pm 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 still in La Suprema, his niece Laureana, […]

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2024

Images of Africa

Red Island (L’île rouge)

Friday, Jul 12th

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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Sisterhood (HLM Pussy)

Friday, Jul 12th

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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Cinema Club

Black Girl + Borom Sarret

Saturday, Jul 13th

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!

Saturday, Jul 13th

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

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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Images of Africa

Supa Modo

Tuesday, Jul 16th

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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Mother of George

Tuesday, Jul 16th

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

Tuesday, Jul 16th

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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