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The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art presents African Art House Film Festival February 2012 Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Free Admission First-come, first-served tickets available at theater box office day of screening Limit of 4 passes per person All screenings at Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street NW, Washington, DC February 2 Man On Ground U.S. premiere! Dir. Akin Omotoso. South Africa 2011. 90 min, English with Yoruba, Sotho, Zulu. An indie thriller that portrays the rising xenophobia against Nigerian immigrants in South Africa. Q & A with director Akin Omotoso and actor Hakeem Kae Kazim February 9 Touki Bouki Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety. Senegal 1973. 85 min., Wolof, Arabic, French with English subtitles. This classic road movie from Senegal follows two young lovers living in Dakar who long for Paris and concoct schemes to pay their way. Q & A with film historian Françoise Pfaff (Howard University) February 16 Aristotle's Plot Dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo. Zimbabwe /Cameroon 1996. 71 min. With a heavy dose of satire, this postmodern film questions if Africans prefer high art festival films or American action flicks. Q & A with film historian Mbye Cham (Howard University) February 23 The Nine Muses Dir. John Akomfrah. Alaska and archival material, 2011. 94 min. This beautiful and enigmatic documentary film mixes archival material and original scenes, and considers mass migration to post-war Britain from 1949 to 1970 as a parallel to Homer's The Odyssey. Q & A with director John Akomfrah The Nine Muses presented in partnership with George Washington University Department of Fine Arts and Art History Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee Back to NMAfA home
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