The 32nd edition of the New York African Film Festival kicks of in New York this May. Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the 32nd edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) from Wednesday, May 7 to Tuesday, May 13.
Over the course of the month of May the festival continues at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem from May 15 to 18. Moves to Brooklyn Academy of Music under the name Film Africa from May 23 to May 29 during Dance Africa, and closes with a May 31st outdoor screening at St. Nicholas Park in Manhattan.
The documentary Memories of Love Returned by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is the Centerpiece Film of this year’s New York African Film Festival. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is an American-Ugandan stage and screen actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian known for performances in The Chi, The Lincoln Lawyer, Dead Ringers and will also be seen in the upcoming series Dexter: Resurrection.
Memories of Love Returned will have its New York premiere on Saturday, May 10. The 6:30pm screening at Film at Lincoln Center will be followed by a Q&A with director Ntare. The documentary is an intimate portrait of the transformative power of photography based on Ntare’s chance encounter with Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, a photographer whose work spanned from the 1950s to his death in 2006, in Uganda. The chance encounter turned into a 22-year journey documenting and exploring Kibaate’s life and photography and the profound impact it had on Ntare’s life and the lives of the entire community he documented.
Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Memories of Love Returned was named best documentary at the Africa International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival.
For tickets to the May 10 screening and Q&A for Memories of Love Returned, or for more information on the 2025 New York African Film Festival, visit https://africanfilmny.org/ or www.filmlinc.org/
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