From directors, Christine Boateng and Hajarah Musah Chambas, Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and the Burden of Excess tells the story of Zoya (portrayed beautifully by Abdulla Rahana), a teenager who has big aspirations. When the path to achieving her goals is blocked,...
With both his parents in prison, Robert (Fiomona Dembeasset) is left to raise his siblings, while balancing school, work, and his passion for music. This proves difficult, more so for him because he and his family are refugees from the Democratic Republic Congo living...
Based on Virginia Woolf’s 1925 book, Mrs. Dalloway, and set in Nigeria, Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa follows Clarissa (played at different times of her life by Sophie Okonedo and India Amarteifio), who reminisces about her teenage years as she prepares for her...
I went into I Love Boosters without seeing the trailer. I distinctly remember reading the synopsis telling myself, “Okay, I have enough information for what I’m about to see.” Reader, I did not. From writer/director Boots Riley, I Love Boosters is an ensemble comedy,...
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In Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], the Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance (MACPRA) works to have the remains of Indigenous Ancestors brought back to their respective tribes from museum storage sites. The...
Marjolein Busstra’s House of Hope lets us into a school in the West Bank run by Palestinian couple, Manar and Milad. The school, House of Hope, focuses on the wholistic care of the students in it, and places a special emphasis on peace. As the documentary progresses,...
Ugandan activist and poet, Stella Nyanzi, does not mince words. Her criticisms of President, Yoweri Museveni certainly put her in the spotlight, and even got her arrested by the government. In The Woman Who Poked The Leopard, Patience Nitumwesiga focuses on the woman...
From director, Giacomo Boeri, Stories For Sandro is a son’s masterful attempt at keeping his father’s memories after he receives a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Boeri captures his father, Sandro’s stories in his own words, in his own voice, with his own narrative flair,...
I got to be a part of a special screening of The Tower That Built A City, a documentary about the CN Tower, that was screened inside the tower, which was pretty cool. Directed by Mark Myers, The Tower That Built A City takes us through the conception and construction...