Strategies of Refusal
This programme brings together works that represent the breadth and complexity of resistance across the African Diaspora, considering spirituality, music and arts alongside protest as key interventions for freedom.
Rabz Lansiquot
This programme contains sequences of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Total running time 94 min.
Films in this programme
Film 1
Sojourner
Honouring the Black feminist activists of the past and present, Cauleen Smith re-imagines Noah Purifoy’s Desert Museum in California as a utopian community.
Dir Cauleen Smith. USA 2018. 23min
Film 2
Fi Dem II
An investigation of Blackness, labour, diaspora and family heritage through archive, glitch, strobe and sound. A commitment to the Windrush generation.
Dir Zinzi Minott. UK 2019. 9min
Festival guests
This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:
- Zinzi Minott, director.
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Film 3
Primeiro Ato
Theatre students André and Gabriel drum up support for resistance against the dismantling of culture policies in Brazil.
Dir Matheus Parizi. Brazil 2019. 19min
Festival guests
This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:
- Matheus Parizi, director.
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Film 4
Pattaki
Under the light of the moon, a community affected by water scarcity marvel at the power of the Orichȧ water deity Yemayȧ.
Dir Everlane Moraes. Cuba 2018. 21min
Film 5
Oh My Homeland
Great soprano Leontyne Price attempts to maintain her composure on stage as she receives adoration from her audience at her 1985 farewell opera.
Dir Stephanie Barber. USA 2019. 4min

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