Harlem Film Festival Aug 2, 2006

Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: Through African Eyes & Prized Pieces

Wednesday, 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