Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

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This programme in celebration of Black History Month focuses on young filmmakers in Canada, the US, the Caribbean and Africa who are continuing to invent new ways of telling the stories of resistance and healing that unite them.
Black filmmakers in Canada, the US, the Caribbean and Africa continue to invent new ways of telling the stories of resistance and healing that unite them. In celebration of Black History Month, we have put the focus on new voices, from the impressive feature debut of Jamaica's Storm Saulter, to a group of young African filmmakers beginning to make their mark in short films, to Toronto's own Sherien Barsoum, who reveals a remarkable story of black identity in this city's suburbs. — Cameron Bailey

Films in Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora

    • Better Mus' Come

    • Gala Canadian Premiere! The landmark feature debut by Jamaica's Storm Saulter is a striking recreation of the infamous Green Bay Massacre of 1978, when rival political factions mobilized street gangs and turned a national election into a bloody showdown.

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    • Colour Me

    • A motivational teacher in a Brampton high school helps six young people explore their sense of black identity in this sensitive and engrossing documentary.

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    • I Want My Name Back

    • The original members of pioneering hip hip group The Sugarhill Gang perform live at TIFF Bell Lightbox for the Canadian premiere of this new documentary chronicling their thirty-year battle against the record label that swindled them.

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    • Kinyarwanda

    • Winner of the 2011 Sundance Audience Award for most popular international drama, Kinyarwanda is a compelling dramatization of an incident that occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutus and Tutsis fleeing the explosive violence found common refuge in a mosque.

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    • African Phantasms: New African Short Films

    • From ironic comedies to childhood fantasies, biting satires to avant-garde social critiques, this eclectic programme of new short films showcases the imagination and inspiration of a rising generation of African filmmakers.

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