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Date(s) - 02/15/2022 - 02/28/2022
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Pan African Film Festival, is among the films to be screened during
PAFF’s Black History Month Retrospective Series
Check out the films below!
We will kick off our yearlong 30th celebration in February with the first of several specially curated blocks of the festival’s most fascinating, complex and most liked films over the past three decades. Throughout the festival’s 30-year history, PAFF has celebrated Black filmmakers and actors whose work has pushed the envelope in cinema in the US and abroad in Africa and other parts of the world. The Best of PAFF Retrospective Series kicks off with a Black History Month exhibition featuring nearly two dozen cinematic groundbreaking foreign and domestic films. The inaugural Best of PAFF Retrospective Series will take place virtually Feb. 15-28, 2022. Film listings, tickets, and passes are available at paff.org.
To celebrate PAFF’s 30-year milestone, the festival will continue its retrospective series in March highlighting Black female filmmakers and their films.
In addition, the 30th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival is slated to place April 19-May 1 after being postponed due to the rise of COVID cases in Los Angeles County. The hybrid festival of in-person and virtual screenings will take place in Los Angeles at its flagship venues the Directors Guild of America, Cinemark Baldwin Hills, and XD and Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.
The Best of PAFF Retrospective Series is sponsored in part by the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson (8th District), Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price (9th District); the 10th Los Angeles City Council District; the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, LA Arts COVID-19 Relief Fund with the California Community Foundation, and the LA County COVID-19 Arts Relief Fund administered by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.
The complete Best of PAFF Retrospective Series for Black History Month lineup:
Narratives
Back of the Moon (South Africa)
Bigman Wahala (Ghana)
Caged Birds (US)
Coming From Insanity (Nigeria)
Love Jacked (Canada/South Africa)
October 1 (Nigeria)
Of Good Report (South Africa)
Rattlesnakes (UK/US)
The Great Kilapy (O Grande Kilapy)(The Big Swindle) (Angola/Portugal)
The Forgotten Kingdom (Lesotho/South Africa)
The Milkmaid (Nigeria)
Viva Riva! (Congo)
Documentaries
41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers (US)
500 Years Later (US/UK)
Agents of Change (US)
Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge (UK)
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (Belgium/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Netherlands/UK)
Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra (Australia)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (US)
Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt (Egypt)
The Case of the Three Sided Dream (US)
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