The African Diaspora International Film Festival

Join us for the The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2025!

Schedule of Events:

10:00am - Selling a Colonial War

This documentary reveals how far the Dutch rulers went in selling the war as a domestic affair, intended to restore peace among the population.

12:00pm - Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know

An original documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today.

2:00pm - Sugar Island

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.

4:00pm - The Last Meal

After twenty years of silence, a dying Reynold asks his estranged daughter, Vanessa, to share his final meals. As she prepares the traditional Haitian dishes of his youth, the familiar flavors unlock painful, buried memories of his life and suffering under the Duvalier dictatorship.

5:30pm - CLOSING NIGHT: Rhythm of Dammam

Rhythm of Dammam is the first narrative to spotlight the African Diaspora in India. It tells the story of twelve-year-old Jayaram Siddi, who is haunted by the spirit of his late grandfather and begins to lose touch with reality.

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