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Film Africa 2024: Rain Through the Sun

A programme of short films exploring the strong connection between our environment and the climate.

This is a publicly contributed event and not a council event. If you would like, you can submit your own event and have it appear on our website (subject to review).

Close-up of the faces and hands of three young Black women with intricately braided and styled hair. They are outside among trees.

Still from Where my Memory Began, directed by Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

Date

Date:

Sunday, 27 October 2024

Time:

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Description

This event highlights the impact of global warming on communities, set against a backdrop of societal issues and campaigns.

This screening is a special Dine & View event. All ticket prices include a plate of food to enjoy during the screening.

PROGRAMME

WHERE MY MEMORY BEGAN directed by Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda (Sierra Leone)
In Freetown, Elder Ballu hears the news that the 400-year-old majestic Cotton Tree has fallen. Standing at the foot of what’s left, she remembers the histories of the ancestors who crossed the Atlantic back to Africa to find freedom.

BLACK CORPOREAL (BREATHING BY NUMBERS) directed by Julianknxx (UK)
With a layering of poetry, essay, documentary and music, the Black Corporeal (Breathing By Numbers) film exposes the multiple realities of Black life in London and our relationships with this built environment that holds us. The film is anchored by the returning voice of Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, as she traces her journey to having air pollution officially listed as a cause of death of her 9-year-old daughter, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the first time this had happened in the UK.

BEUTSET directed by Alicia Mendy (Senegal)
When a parasite contaminates all the drinking water of Dakar, pills are created to neutralize it. Alioune is a young man who can no longer afford his pills and is exposed to the symptoms of the parasite: Madness and dementia. As the days go by, he realises that he had never been so lucid, and thus begins his journey of political and spiritual awakening.

LEES WAXUL directed by Yoro Mbaye (Sénégal, Belgique, France)
In his village where bread is rare, Ousseynou, a former fisherman, finds stability by selling stale bread. The opening of his sister-in-law’s bakery creates a palpable unsaid between them (Lees Waxul), threatening his business and his family role

ALAZAR directed by Beza Hailu Lemma (Ethiopia)
A farming community in Ethiopia grapples with existential questions when a family patriarch’s body mysteriously vanishes from his grave. Beza Hailu Lemma’s profoundly affecting drama explores the aftermath.

ABOUT FILM AFRICA
This screening is part of Film Africa 2024. Film Africa, London’s biggest celebration of African and African diaspora cinema presented by the Royal African Society, returns for its 11th edition from Friday 25 October to Sunday 3 November 2024.

ACCESS

Room will be dark
The films are captioned.
Wheelchair Access and/or Disabled Toilets are available at this site.
Please contact mail@southlondongallery.org with any additional access requirements.
If you would like to attend this event but the ticket price is a limitation please get in touch as we have reserved a number of free tickets for low-income individuals. Contact us at: adoudu@southlondongallery.org