DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — THE 33RD ANNUAL New York African Film Festival comes to Brooklyn next weekend, joining DanceAfrica as FilmAfrica at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, according to a press release from the African Film Festival. From May 22 through May 28, 20 films and shorts highlighting Africa and its diasporas will screen at BAM Rose Cinemas, united under the theme “As the Stars Sow the Earth.”
When it arrives at BAM, FilmAfrica will join DanceAfrica in this year’s focus on Uganda — which will include a 35th anniversary screening of “Mississippi Masala,” a film about a Ugandan-born Indian family, by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mother Mira Nair.
The New York African Film Festival comes to BAM after a stint at Film at Lincoln Center and in Harlem at the Maysles Documentary Center. Tickets for the festival can be purchased at BAM.org.
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