{"id":10096,"date":"2010-02-19T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2019-06-25T07:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:30:05","slug":"bamcinematek-african-diaspora-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/10096\/bamcinematek-african-diaspora-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMcin\u00e9matek\u2019s African Diaspora Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What: <\/strong>BAMcin\u00e9matek\u2019s African Diaspora Film Festival
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Where:<\/strong> Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)<\/strong><\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> February 19-24th, 2010<\/p>\n

Why:<\/strong> For the past seven years, BAMcin\u00e9matek has partnered with the African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF) to bring the best moving images to its viewing auditoriums in downtown Brooklyn. (Although BAM launched its own indoor film festival last year\u2014BAMcinemaFest<\/a>\u2014ADFF hasn\u2019t felt like it got the shaft.) Instead, this marks the eighth year that the annual festival will take a six-day residency at the neighborhood institution devoted to the Diaspora of ideas and identities.<\/p>\n

The 18 films culled from the more than 100 films screened at the 17th annual ADFF festival held last fall, \u201cis a balance of diversity throughout the Diaspora and the genre in a condensed version. It is an opportunity to celebrate black history with a global mindset,\u201d said Diarah N\u2019daw Spech, founder of the ADFF and co-director of the BAMcin\u00e9matek festival.<\/p>\n

Friday night extends with a wide range of film styles: the musical documentary, \u201cMade in Jamaica\u201d, the fiction tale, \u201cNothing but the Truth,\u201d and a Nigerian directed allegory, \u201cArugba.\u201d Weekend films of note followed by Q&A sessions include \u201cPro Black Sheep\u201d and Sunday\u2019s program \u201cIdentity Stories.” Not to be missed are the two documentaries peering into the Afro-Latina perspective with the \u201cCultures of Resistance\u201d program, featuring \u201cWith A Stroke of the Chaveta\u201d about a Cuban cigar tradition and \u201cSolidarity in Saya: An Afro-Bolivian Music Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the weekend, tales of exploration and journey continue when a Rastafari finds commonality across three continents in \u201cJourney of a Lion\u201d and a rare look at the lives of nine twenty-something Egyptians in \u201cStolen Kisses\u201d, directed by Khaled El Hagar.<\/p>\n

Whether you sit before a screen that transports you to Cuba, Jamaica or Africa, \u201cYou will see connections from the African ancestry that we all share,\u201d said Spech.<\/p>\n

Cost:<\/strong> $12 Admission<\/p>\n

How to get there:<\/strong> Take the 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Avenue or the D,M,N,R to Pacific Street. For a full list of screenings and events visit bam.org. To purchase ADFF films visit africandiasporadvd.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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