Co-presented with the Pan African Film Festival in association with LACMA’s Aspect Ratio film education program.
Sun, Feb 19 @ 3:00p
Soleil Ô
Dir: Med Hondo
(1970/102m)
A furious cry of resistance against racist oppression and a revolutionary landmark of political cinema, this feature debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, dazzlingly experimental attack on capitalism and the legacies of colonialism.
Atlantiques
Dir: Mati Diop
(2009/16m)
The short which preceded Mati Diop’s monumental feature film shows a group of young men sitting around a beach fire, contemplating the treacherous voyage by sea from Senegal to Europe