Celebrating its 30th year, New York African Film Festival this year, during Covid shutdown, is running online December 2-6. Under the banner "Streaming Rivers: The Past into the Present", it spotlights films from two nations - Nigeria and Sudan. It will feature six features and eight short films. The festival will highlight the trailblazing works of Ibrahim Shaddard, a Sudanese filmmaker by featuring two of his films Hunting Party (1964) and Human (1994). Also an acclaimed documentary on Shaddard by Suhaib Gasmelbari, Talking About Trees, which captures the efforts of Shaddard and fellow friends and retired Sudanese filmmakers Manda Al Hilo, Suleiman Mohamed Ibrahim and Altayeb Mahdi, whose work was supressed for decades by Islamist censorship after the 1989 coup - to reopen an outdoor...
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- 12/1/2020
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