10th Annual African Diaspora INTERNATIONAL Film Festival will run in Chicago June 14-21, 2012 Facets Multimedia and the African Diaspora Film Festival will celebrate 10 years of collaboration in the production of a festival that has brought to the imagination of people films such as: The Tracker, Kirikou and The Sorceress, Gospel Hill, Massai, The Rain Warriors, Sia, The Dream of the Python, Made In Jamaica and many more. South Africa, Surinam, The United States, Brazil, Cuba and Cameroon are some of the countries represented in the 10th African Diaspora Film Festival-Chicago.
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LES OUBLIES DE L'HISTOIRE (THE FORGOTTEN)
Director: Hassan Benjoullan; 2010; 105 min;
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE Thursday, June 14 @ 6PM
screening followed by reception
FACETS CINEMATHEQUE
Saturday, June 16 @ 2PM
MOROCCO
Director: Keith Miller; 2012, 80min
Friday, June 15 @ 6:30PM - Opening Night
Q&A and Reception
Sunday, June 17 @ 5PM
Q&A after the screening
USA
GOLDEN SCARS
Director: Alexandrine Boudreault; 2010; 61 min
Friday, June 15 @ 9PM
CANANA /CUBA
Screening sponsored by the Quebec Government Office - Chicago
Director: John Kani; 2008, 78 min
Saturday, June 16 @ 4PM
Thursday, June 21 @ 6:30PM
SOUTH AFRICA
Sponsored by the South African Consulate General: Chicago
Director: John Kani; 2008, 78 min
Saturday, June 16 @ 4PM
Thursday, June 21 @ 8:30PM
SOUTH AFRICA
Sponsored by the South African Consulate General: Chicago
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Director: Laurens Grant, 2012, 60 min
USA
ONE PEOPLE (WAM PIPEL)
Director: Pim de la Parra, 1976, 111 min
Sunday, June 17 @ 1PM
Wednesday, June 20 @ 6:30PM
SURINAM / THE NETHERLANDS
Director: TyroneYoung, 2010, 83 min
USA
TAXIPHONE
Director: TyroneYoung, 2010, 83 min
SWITZERLAND / ALGERIA
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland - Chicago
THE BIG BANANA
Director: Franck Biel eu, 2011, 85min
CAMEROON
ABDIA DO NASCIEMENTO
Director: Aída Marques, 2011, 95 min
BRAZIL
THE FIRST RASTA
Director: Hélène Lee, 2011, 90 min
JAMAICA / FRANCE
SCHEHERAZADE, T ELL ME A STORY
Director: Yousry Nasrallah, 2009, 135 min
EGYPT
PARRADOX
Director: In-soo Radstake, 2010, 89 min
THE NETHERLANDS
12.05.2012 | Editor's blog
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