Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Mar 24, 2023 7pm - 9pm
Details
Now in its 19th year, the New African Film Festival (NAFF), presented by AFI and Africa World Now Project, brings the vibrancy of African filmmaking from all corners of the continent and across the diaspora to the Washington, DC, area. The Festival features 30 films from 22 countries, including six U.S. premieres.
C. J. "Fiery" Obasi's (JUJU STORIES) potent modern fable deploys vivid black-and-white cinematography, rich sound design and a hypnotic score in a folk-futurist style both earthy and otherworldly. Obasi depicts a pitched battle between opportunistic militants promising technological progress and a matriarchal spiritual order living in fragile harmony with the ocean. MAMI WATA transports viewers to a place that seems both suspended in time and perhaps running out of time, as the threats of modern life wash up on its shores. In West African Pidgin with English subtitles.
