FRIDAY, JUNE 29 @ 6PM    
OTOMO
Award winning actors Isaac de Bankole (Chocolat, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samourai, Manderlay) and Eva Mattess (Enemy at the Gates) star in this powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality and provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity.
"A shocking portrayal of rampant racism." – Variety
FREE SCREENING. 

FRIDAY, JUNE 29 @ 8PM      THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL
This award-winning, powerful documentary which received its world premiere during the 10th ADIFF in 2002 at the Schomburg Center, recounts how the murder of this young man was a catalist for the Civil Rights Mouvement in the USA. "A powerful account of a hate crime in mid-century segregated Mississippi." – Variety

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 @ 2PM

NO TIME TO DIE
"Ghanaian helmer King Ampaw's beguiling English-speaking comedy, about the romantic travails of a lovestruck hearse driver, effortlessly shuttles between city and bush, from genre to fable and back again." – Variety

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 @ 4PM      

SIA, THE DREAM OF THE PYTHON
"A delightful, pointed fable of religious and political extremism that's extra-relevant at present [Sia, the Dream of the Python is a] smart, briskly paced mix of costume exotica and punchy thematic universalism. – Variety

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 @ 6PM    

FISH ABOVE SEA LEVEL
"Tyro Jordanian writer-director Hazim Bitar's laid-back minimalist approach works to surprising dramatic effect in "Fish Above Sea Level," a character-driven two-hander about the grandson of a white loan shark and the grandson of his black victim thrown together by the economic downturn." – Variety

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 @ 8PM

DANCING FOREVER
"Based on Marie Do's autobiographical novel, ["Dancing Forever"] neatly balances the two dominant factors in its heroine's destiny: her mixed-race heritage and her passion for dance. "Dancing Forever's" consistently upbeat tone matches its heroine's indomitable spirit. Featuring fully fleshed-out, juicily ambivalent characters coping with complexities of racism in 1960s France, and a wealth of colorful, well-executed terpsichorean material performed by a talented, real-life ballerina lead, pic satisfies on a number of levels." – Variety

SUNDAY, JULY 1@ 2PM
DESAMORES
"Spiffy Puerto Rican noir with a black private eye as hero, based on the novel "Desamores" by political writer Wilfredo Mattos-Cintron, brings some nice ironic class tensions back into the genre. The story hovers over the uglier aspects of the beautiful people as the cynical detective walks a thin line between a corrupt plutocracy and a psychopathic criminal underclass on the streets of San Juan. " – Variety

SUNDAY, JULY 1 @ 4PM

SCHEHERAZADE, TELL ME A STORY
"Though treating women's oppression as a political issue isn't exactly new, the clarity with which it's spelled out in "Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story" is both bold and brave. Together with scribe Waheed Hamed, helmer Yousry Nasrallah presents women's sexuality as an expression of self-determination, making clear the parallels with an ever-degenerating political system." – Variety

SUNDAY, JULY 1 @ 6:30PM

CURACAO
"With razor-sharp irony, Dutch documakers Sander Snoep and Sarah Vos limn a damning portrait of the legacy of colonialism in "Curacao." The slyly acerbic pic juxtaposes letters from 18th- and 19th-century magistrates and ship captains, matter-of-factly enumerating everyday horrors of the slave trade, with scenes of contemporary Hollanders wining and dining in gated communities; meanwhile, the faces of marginalized blacks silently confront the camera. A well-crafted study in cultural cluelessness." – Variety