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Harlem Film Festival Venue Change.
August 02, 2006
Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: Through African Eyes & Prized PiecesWednesday, August 2, 7:00 pm
DUE TO THE HEAT WAVE, event will be held at the Museum of the City of New York — enter on 104th Street east of Fifth Avenue
Live performance: Kotchegna Dance Company Ivorian Drummers and Dancers
Short Film: The Colonial Friend/lami ya bon (Rachid Bouchareb, Algeria/France, 2004)
— 9 minutes
French with English subtitles. Animated film recording a 1944 incident in which Senegalese veterans were gunned down after demanding to receive payment for their military service.
Feature Film: Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal, 1992) — 113 minutes
Wolof with English subtitles. Mambety's second and last feature adapts a timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire of today's Africa, where the hopes of independence are betrayed for the empty promises of Western materialism.
FREE. For more information, please call 212-860-1370
