PSA: for all the LOVERS OF REVOLUTIONARY + DECOLONISING CINEMA in NYC:

my dear friend Elspeth has programmed *literally* THE BEST, THE MOST RADICAL series that has EVER been shown at @FilmForumNYC!

“THE HOUR OF LIBERATION:
Decolonizing Cinema, 1966-1981”

24 May 24 to 13 June

SOLEIL Ô
(1970, Med Hondo)

SAMBIZANGA
(1972, Sarah Maldoror)

THE RETURN OF AMILCAR CABRAL & MADINA BOÉ
(1977, Sana Na N’Hada, Flora Gomes)
&
(1968, José Massip)

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
(1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)

BLACK GIRL
(1966, Ousmane Sembène)

LUCÍA
(1968, Humberto Solás)

THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED
(1974, Heiny Srour)

MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
(1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

CABASCABO & MOI, UN NOIR
(1958, Jean Rouch)
&
(1968, Jean Rouch)

XALA
(1974, Ousmane Sembène)

TURUMBA
(1981-83, Kidlat Tahimik)

MACUNAÍMA
(1969, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)

MUEDA, MEMORY AND MASSACRE
(1979, Ruy Guerra)

ANTONIO DAS MORTES
(1969, Glauber Rocha)

SEMBÈNE, MAMBÉTY AND ALASSANE

Sembène’s debut Borom Serret (1963), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Contras’ city (1969), portrait of two Dakars, and a Nigerien Moustapha Alassane’s Le Retour d’un Aventurier and Bon Voyage Sim (both 1966)

THE LAST SUPPER
(1976, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

THE LITTLE GIRL OF HANOI
(1975, Hai Ninh)