DC Black Girl Film Club (mid-20s & 30s)

Link to tickets for Will
Link to tickets for Love & Basketball (SOLD OUT)
Tickets are very limited as the theatre is small!

Join us on May 28th for a screening of Will by Jesse Maple and Love & Basketball by Gina Prince-Bythewood at Suns Cinema in Mount Pleasant, D.C.

This double feature will be presented by Britt Sankofa as part of her monthly Black Cinema series at Suns.
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Will @ 7:00 PM sharp
Love & Basketball @ 9:15 PM sharp
It is highly recommended that you arrive at least 15 minutes before each feature
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Attendance to both films is absolutely not required so feel free to pick whichever showing looks most intriguing to you!
Drinks and popcorn available for purchase!

Link to purchase tickets: https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100000551/

This meetup at AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring is a double feature of Black Girl and Borom Sarat. The ticket incudes both films.

Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers ever and the most internationally renowned African director of the 20th century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BLACK GIRL. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot — about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison — into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement — and one of the essential films of the 1960s. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Ousmane Sembène, from his short story; PROD André Zwoboda. Senegal/France, 1966, b&w, 60 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Preceded by:

BOROM SARRET
The genesis of Black African cinema can be traced to this short, stark masterpiece that chronicles a day in the life of a Dakar cart driver. DIR/SCR/PROD Ousmane Sembène. Senegal, 1963, b&w, 20 min. In French and Wolof with English subtitles. NOT RATED

BOROM SARRET was restored in 2013 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and Éclair, in association with The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project; INA, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel; and the Sembène Estate. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute.
Run Time: 80 Minutes
Genre: Drama

Link to purchase tickets: https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100005508/

Celebrated as a key film in the canon of Black independent cinema in the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’ NAKED ACTS was included in the seminal anthology “The 50 Most Influential Black Films” by S. Torriano Berry. Beautiful aspiring actor Cicely (Jake-Ann Jones) has just landed her first major role, but there is a big problem: It requires a nude scene. Her mother was a Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal, while Cicely is a survivor of sexual assault with lifelong body image issues, all of which has left her with a strong aversion to disrobing in public. Now, with the support of her boyfriend, Joel (Ron Cephas Jones), she attempts to get past her fear. (Note courtesy of Kino Lorber.) DIR/SCR/PROD Bridgett M. Davis. U.S., 1996, color, 87 min. RATED R

NAKED ACTS was digitally restored and remastered by Lightbox Film Center in collaboration with Milestone Films in 2023 from the 16mm a/b rolls preserved at the Indiana University Black Film Center & Archive. Restoration and release with creative consultation by Maya Cade, creator of the Black Film Archive.
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Genre: Drama