EVENTS

NYADIFF: White Lies Screening

The New York African Diaspora International Film Festival is back at MIST! Films will be shown throughout the week from Saturday March 5th to Friday March 11th. Check below for the films that will be showing along with the schedule:

*Make it a dinner and a movie night! Purchase a ticket and receive a 10% discount at The Restaurant at MIST for that night.

Tickets

White Lies

Based on a novel by “Whale Rider” writer Witi Ihimaera, White Lies – New Zealand’s entry in the 2014 Oscar competition for best foreign-language film – is an intense women-centered drama that explores with great humanity and sensitivity such difficult topics as race relations, skin bleaching and abortion.

Paraiti is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people – she believes in life. But new laws in force are prohibiting unlicensed healers, making the practice of much Maori medicine illegal. She gets approached by Maraea, the servant of a wealthy woman, Rebecca, who seeks her knowledge and assistance in order to hide a secret which could destroy Rebecca’s position in European settler society.

This compelling story tackles moral dilemmas, exploring the nature of identity, societal attitudes to the roles of women and the tension between Western and traditional Maori medicine. Directed by Dana Rotberg, 2014, 96min, New Zealand, Drama, Maori, English, English subt.

White Like The Moon

A Mexican-American girl struggles to keep her identity when her mother forces her to bleach her skin. White Like the Moon is a revealing film about a dilemma not very well known outside Latino communities; that of the myth of the light skin superiority in Indigenous and Indigenous descendant communities. Directed by Marina Gonzales Palmier, 2001, USA, 23 min, short drama in English

Bound: Africans Vs. African-Americans

Bound: African vs African Americans is a hard-hitting documentary that addresses the little known tension that exists between Africans and African Americans. The film opens with personal testimonials that expose this rift then walks us through the corridors of African colonialism and African American enslavement, laying bare their effects and how these have divided and bound Africans and African Americans. Directed by Peres Owino, 2014, 90 min., United States, documentary, English.