Online Screening Info: Available to view 12 am on June 26 through 12 am on June 28.
BUT YOU'RE NOT BLACK
Directed by Danielle Ayow. 19:17. Canada. 2019.
A Chinese-Caribbean-Canadian woman, driven by people’s inability to separate her skin colour from her culture, tries to own the Trinidadian identity she knows should feel like hers.
Presented with Through the Eyes of a Woman and The Bengali.
THROUGH THE EYES OF A WOMAN
Directed by Yesenia Rego. (USA 2019, 12:33)
A girl kicks a pig, a collector shows her home, a child learns her name. These are all glimpses into the experiences of women residing in the Bateyes--villages where sugar cane workers and their families live--in La Romana, Dominican Republic. This film creates a visual tapestry of community, identity, and self-documentation.
Presented with But You're Not Black and The Bengali.
THE BENGALI
Directed by Kavery Kaul. (USA 2021, 1:10:43)
Fatima Shaik embarks upon an unlikely quest when she travels from New Orleans, the city of her birth, to India, home of her grandfather Shaik Mohamed Musa. An African-American writer whose family has lived in Louisiana for four generations, she travels with Kolkata-born filmmaker Kavery Kaul to a part of India where no African-American (or American) has ever gone. Her search for the past is fraught with uncertainty as she looks for her grandfather’s descendants, the land he claimed to own, and the truth behind the stories she grew up with.
Presented with But You're Not Black and Through the Eyes of a Woman