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The 8th Annual African Film Festival is bringing award-winning African films and filmmakers to Washington University St. Louis this week.
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The festival will present 10 films over three days. All showings are free and open to the public. Short films, followed by feature films, will be shown nightly at 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday, March 22-24. A youth matinee — featuring four short films — takes place at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 23. There also will be question-and-answer sessions with two directors after the screenings of their respective films.
“The African Film Festival provides an invaluable opportunity for the St. Louis community to be exposed to African stories as told by Africans,” says senior Lamley Lawson, president of African Students Association.
Scheduled to be featured are films for both adults and children from Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Nambia, and Kenya. There will also be theme-related crafts for children.
“These films are means by which African filmmakers reassert ownership of their own narratives, providing a foil to the often one-dimensional viewpoints popularized by Western society,” Lawson said.
The event will take place in Brown Hall, Room 100, on the university’s Danforth Campus (located near the intersection of Forsyth and Skinker). For a full festival line up, visit http://wupa.wustl.edu/africanfilm/ or call 314-935-7879.
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