Photos : Isseu Diouf Campbell
The 25th New York African Film Festival opened at Film Society of New York under the theme “25 Years of the New York African Film Festival,” on May 16, 2018.
The Opening Night film is Apolline Traoré’s award-winning tragicomedy, Borders, which ties in nicely to women’s struggles currently in the news.
The international film organizations paid homage to the pioneers of African cinema while marking the passing of the baton to a new generation of African visual storytellers who continue to transform and expand our understanding of the continent and its diaspora.
The festival runs May 16 through May 22 at FSLC and continues at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM cinématek, and Maysles Cinema in Harlem, screening 75 films from 25 countries across the African Diaspora.
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