The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is pleased to partner with LE CORDON BLEU College of Culinary Arts to bring a unique screening experience to Seattle area audiences.
Join master chefs and chefs-in-training for an immersive culinary and cinema treat! Chefs will be on hand providing cooking demonstrations, tasty bites and insight on what it [...]
We just can’t quit A DIOS MOMO. This magical and vivid story of Obdulio a cheerful eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his devoted grandmother and two sisters.
The Underground Railroad Film Series continues the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center’s Afro-Latino focus, exploring the intersections between Black and Brown people in the Americas. African slaves were [...]
RETURN propels us into the unseen world of indigenous African medicine through ritual, spiritual connections and sacrifice. Through exclusive visits with traditional healers across the African continent, we experience their ancient practices first hand. The film chronicles the journey of two African American professionals as they reconnect to the cultures of their ancestry, and encounter [...]
This ambitious and hard-hitting documentary looks at the popularity of hip-hop among America’s white youth. It asks whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or if it is merely a new chapter in the long continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation?
A much needed anecdote to much of the [...]
Anomaly – Barack Obama’s presidency has brought conversations on racial identity to the forefront. ANOMALY is a groundbreaking documentary film that takes an insider’s look at the experiences of multiracial Americans. Through personal narratives, ANOMALY stimulates viewers to think about identity, family and community in a changing world.
The film features interviews and performances with singer/songwriter [...]
This year’s African American Film Festival brings an outstanding variety of shorts produced by filmmakers from around the world and right here at home. We’ve spread these little jewels throughout the festival for audiences to enjoy. Almost every film in the 2010 fest features an accompanying short. Enjoy your favorite!
Short Films
From Local Filmmakers
Sunday, April [...]
Adera is a heart wrenching story about an Ethiopian refugee’s struggle to survive in the city of Johannesburg. Life in South Africa is dangerous and earning money is difficult. She quickly discovers that Johannesburg is not the promised city of gold.
Marlam struggles to provide for her two children back home and through a series of [...]
A mythopoetic odyssey exploring identity and spirituality across three generations of an African-American family. USA, East Africa and Brazil.
Astoundingly beautiful and epic in scope, That’s My Face (é minha cara) is a personal documentary offering an entire generation of African Americans a groundbreaking perspective on the maddening diasporic search for a mythic motherland. In healing [...]
THE TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA, film based on the story of the first wave of South African exiles who left Bloemfontein in 1960 to keep the anti-apartheid movement alive from East Africa, Europe, America and Cuba. In their heroic journey, this group of twelve — and the thousands of young South African freedom fighters [...]
FAMILY FUN FRIDAY – Join us as we take it old school to the streets. We team up with the Award winning NW Double Dutch
and their exhibition team, ‘ON THE DOUBLE’ for fun contests with jump rope prizes for the audience, demonstrations/performances All this is set to an upbeat jumping-music soundtrack.
FREE! It’s a very fun [...]
