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Sankofa Film Festival: Films from the Diaspora
Saturday February 12, 2022 | 11 am – 3 pm
Enjoy a day of documentary films at MOA that explore stories of the African diaspora.
Presented in conjunction with MOA’s new feature exhibition Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots (on display until March 27, 2022), this mini film festival features a series of short documentaries about the African diaspora in the Americas.
Through these films, engage with the hidden histories of Canadian urban planning projects and their impacts on historic Black Canadian communities, and celebrate Africa’s rich cultural heritage that has survived through centuries.
Remember Africville (at 11:05 am)
Shelagh Mackenzie| 1991 | 35 min | English | Canada
This film, produced by the National Film Board, explores the history of Africville, a small Black settlement within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Former residents, their descendants, and some urban planners speak out about the decision to demolish the settlement in the 1960s, in the name of urban renewal and integration.
Hogan’s Alley (at 11:45 am)
Cornelia Wyngaarden and Andrea Fatona | 1994 | 32 min | Canada | English
This short documentary tells the unrecorded history of Vancouver’s Black community, specifically Hogan’s Alley, between 1930 and the late 1960s, examining the lives of three Black women.
Secret Vancouver: Return to Hogan’s Alley (at 12:20 pm)
Melinda Friedman| 2016 | 16 min | English | Canada
This short documentary features rich archival materials as well as interviews with academics and community members to tell the story of how this former hotbed of jazz was destroyed due to gentrification and urban renewal.
They Are We (at 1:30 pm)
Emma Christopher| 2014 | 1 h 17 min | English | Cuba
They Are We shows the reunion of a family separated by the Transatlantic slave trade, joined by their ancestral songs and dances. The film digs deeper into the Afro-Cuban songs and dances brought by an ancestor during the slave trade to Perico, Cuba, tracing back the origins to a remote village in Sierra Leone. Christopher’s film is a colorful celebration of Afro-Cuban culture and the cultural heritage that has survived through centuries.
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