Reel
Voices' Africa Film Series ~ African Masterworks and Portraits
of Philadelphia’s African Community
Thursday,
January 8 at 7:30 PM
Presented
by International House and Scribe
Video Center
Join
us for extraordinary films from the African continent, organized
by Philadelphia filmmaker Filmon Mebrahtu of Reel
Voices. Each feature film will be paired with an
excerpt from Mebrahtu’s Rencontrer, a series of newly
produced documentary portraits of remarkable men and women in
West Philadelphia’s growing African community.
Pieces
of Identity
dir.
Mwezi Ngangura, Congo , 1998, Beta SP, 93 mins, color, French
w/ English subtitles
 At
first glance Pieces of Identity is the timeless story
of an old king, his beautiful if wayward daughter, a dragon
of sorts and the prince charming who rescues them; it even has
a happy ending. At the same time, Ngangura's simple fable raises
some of the most troubling issues of identity facing people
of African descent in the ever-widening Diaspora of the late
20th century.
Preceded
by:
Rencontrer:
Balde
dir.
Filmon Mebrahtu , USA , 2003, Beta SP, 5 mins
Tickets are $6.00 for general admission, $5.00 for I House members,
students and seniors. Available one hour before showtime at
the International House box office.
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