Closing Night Drive-In: Night of the Kings at The Houston Ballet Drive-In

Ivory Coast’s official submission to the 2020 Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, this movie is a work of gripping cinema from breakout Ivory Coast filmmaker Philippe Lacôte. The film takes place at the Maca correctional facility in Abidjan run by inmates and dominated by superstition. Upon the rising of a red moon, a newly arrived prisoner is selected by the autocratic Lord Black Beard to assume the position of “Roman” (storyteller). Like Scheherazade in Arabian Nights, the new prisoner must entertain his fellow inmates with wild tales or risk his own life, so he shares the story of Zama, his old friend who became a legendary crime boss. Buy tickets at Cinemahtx.org.