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Mossane Safi Faye. Senegal. 1996. 10 5 1111n. Excluslve New York screening. ONE NIOHT ONI.Y, Faye's gorgeous fi lm begins as A d Lnlloc1 'i lllcly cif contempora ry, Wolof life and unfolcJ · wlt l1 tliu mounting force of ancient trag dy AS Mosst111 , wllo s1, mythic beauty Is tied to her family's fortun , I Alls 111 love with Fara, a student with no prospects. Th Ir passion for one another becomes a catalyst for defiance and desperation.

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Etoiles Rencontrent La Merl t.il? Stars Meet the Sea aonarivelo. Madagascar. 1996. 85 min.

e key to belief systems of the Merina apila, the crippled hero, embarks on

ich ultimate ly leads him to embrace a by love and imaginat ion .

. France. 1997. 6 m in. i Sissalo attended co

et a young Angolan . · anga. Al most two d

s to Angola in searrrct"' 's ravaged history. Habitues of

Cafe" society share their trauma t ic

in Reverse Diawara. Mali . 1995. 52 min.

ra introduces a technique he calls " reverse · Fopology." By turning the camera on the pre-

-' inent ethgpgraphic filmmaker , Jean Rouch, he ~ opens a di<lJl)gue that encourages Africans to create . ;:: versions ofib:fir own past, present and future.

with Les Fous, Jean Rouch, .1954. 35 min . et Linc . r. This cont roversia l documentar y

6 xamines tNe Hauku religious cult practices in ~Ghana and Niger from the 1920s to the 1950s.

In Search of Africa, Manth ia Diawara. 1997. in. at the)lrooklyn Museum of Art. The aker 's video travelogue of West Africa and Africa with a childhood friend. The two probe

sues of Africa conf ronting the millennium and st-Cold War era.

Bandele Nigeria. 1997. 160 min. ascens1 o go, the Yoruba king the ir A-=.fr O . o rl cih ---- ·- - ·· · - -- -----

ture characterize the reign of the god of thunder lighten ing and illuminate the continuing rence for Sango throughout the A~ Diaspora

and West Africa. lfJ ableau Ferrallle /. Scrap Heaw,"! oussa Sene Ab negal. 1997. 93 min.

Filmee in the dire hometown of Tableau Ferraille , Daam, a list ic young politician, must choose t>El!Ween t ial paradigms exemplified by his two -.,.Mes - G i, a dignified village lady, and Kine, a modern, w te rn-educated woman.

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~ 3 Short Films Jean-M e Teno Yellow Fever Taxi . 1985 . 30 min.

n original , com ic filfn chron iclihg the mis Sam-, a macho , swaggering cab driver in uala, o imagines himself to be quite the ladies ' man. ad in the Clouds. 1997. 37 min. o 's investigation of the chaos of contemporary

·can life is to ld thro ugh the parables of friends a acquaintances. r. Foot. 1991. 37 min. 'ghligbts Africa's obsess ion w· nd soccer.

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