15th Annual ADIFF Chicago - June 9 to 15, 2017
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Description
To celebrate its 15th Anniversary in Chicago, the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) - hosted by Facets Cinematheque and presented by ArtMattan Productionsts from June 9 to 15 - will present its most ambitious program to date in the Windy City. With 16 documentaries and fiction films set in The United States, Chile, Canada, South Africa, Haiti, Spain, France, Guadeloupe, The UK, Burkina Faso, and Egypt, ADIFF Chicago will celebrate 15 years of great cinema and great talks with new films, special events and revealing stories!
To find out more details about the line up, click on the films below.
Afro-Latino Program - Q&A
Friday, June 9, 2017 @ 6:30PM
Chicago Premiere!
AFRO-LATINO PROGRAM THE VALLEY OF BLACK DESCENDANTS (EL VALLE DE LOS NEGROS)
will be shown with INVISIBLE ROOTS: AFRO-MEXICANS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Q&A with Lizz Mullis
Everything But a Man – Opening Night Film - Q&A
Friday, June 9 @ 8:30pm
Chicago Premiere!
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION @ 7:30PM
SCREENING @ 8:30PM
Q&A with director after the screening
Second screening on Sunday, June 11 @ 4:15pm
She’s Sexy, Strong, Successful… and still single. A successful African-American career woman has a life-changing romance […] Read More
Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories
Saturday, June 10 @ 2pm
Tuesday, June 13 @ 8:30pm
Unieros Social Drink on Tue, June 13 @ 7:30PM
Chicago Premiere!
Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians. Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Spain to […] Read More
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Saturday, June 10 @ 4pm
Chicago Premiere!
From child prodigy to “Boogie-Woogie Queen” to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time, Mary Lou Williams never ceased to astound those who […]
BLACK PARIS – GALA, Q&A and Reception
Saturday, June 10 @ 6PM
Chicago Premiere!
Paris Noir – African Americans in the City of Light – Q&A
WHEN AFRICAN AMERICANS CAME TO PARIS
Paris Noir – African Americans in the City of Light is an exciting, enlightening documentary on the presence of African-Amiricans in Paris […] Read More
Adopted ID – Special Presentation & Q&A and Reception
Saturday, June 10 @ 8pm
Chicago Premiere!
Screening sponsored by the Dusable Association!
RECEPTION @ 7PM
SCREENING @ 8PM
This gripping observational documentary uncovers the extraordinary journey of 27 year old Judith Craig. Abandoned at birth, she bravely returns to where she […] Read More
The Black Mozart in Cuba & Torments of Love
Sunday, June 11 @ 2pm
Chicago Premiere!
Stories from Guadeloupe: Torments of Love & Black Mozart in Cuba
Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de St George, was a Black classical composer and violin virtuoso born in Guadeloupe in the mid 18th century. Read More
The Naked Poet – Centerpiece - Q&A and Reception
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Chicago Premiere!
CENTERPIECE RECEPTION @ 5:30PM
SCREENING @ 6:45PM
Q&A with director after the screening
Second screening on Monday, June 12 @ 8:30pm – Q&A
The NAKED POET (A Heart Divided) is the Story of a Poet called Lazarus. The […]Read More
Montreal, White City
Tuesday, June 13 @6:30PM
Chicago Premiere!
Screening sponsored by The Quebec Government Office – Chicago
One Christmas evening in Montreal, Amokrane, an Algerian taxi driver, picks up Kahina, a former Algerian pop star that he thought was dead. […] Read More
Nasser’s Republic, The Making of Modern Egypt
Wednesday, June 14 @6:30PM
Chicago Premiere!
NASSER’S REPUBLIC: THE MAKING OF MODERN EGYPT is the first film for an American audience about Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world’s most transformative leaders. In 1952, as a […]
Sins of the Flesh
Wednesday, June 14 @ 8:30pm
Unieros Social Drink @ 7:30PM
Chicago Premiere
A drama set against the Egyptian revolution as a back drop, the story is build around four people who live on a desert farm. It examines issues of love, revenge, passion and the […]
Friday, June 15 @ 6:30PM
Screening followed by reception sponsored by the Chicago South African Consulate!
Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in […]
Thursday, June 15 @ 8:30pm
CLOSING NIGHT
Q&A with director after the screening
Reception at 7:30pm
HOGTOWN is set in 1919 Chicago against the backdrop of the race riots of that year. The story follows an investigation into the […] Read More
Organizer African Diaspora International Film Festival
Organizer of 15th Annual ADIFF Chicago - June 9 to 15, 2017
The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) is a minority-led not-for profit international film festival that presents, interprets and educates about films that explore the human experience of people of color all over the world in order to inspire imaginations, disrupt stereotypes and help transform attitudes that perpetuate injustice.
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