The New York African Film Festival continues its citywide month-long march, celebrating cinema from all parts of Africa and the Diaspora. NYAFF settles into Brooklyn\u2019s BAM Rose Cinemas from May 22 to May 28 as FilmAfrica, part of DanceAfrica 2026, BAM\u2019s longest running program and the nation\u2019s largest celebration of African diasporic dance, music, and culture. Curated by the African Film Festival, this cinematic companion spotlights the culture and artistry of Uganda presenting a showcase of contemporary and classic Pan-African cinema that highlights the continent\u2019s rich storytelling traditions, social movements, and artistic expression.<\/p>\n
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At BAM, the selection ranges from foundational works such as Ossie Davis\u2019s 1972 film Black Girl, starring Leslie Uggams, to assured debut features from Olive Nwosu \u2014 the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble winner Lady \u2014 and Suzannah Mirghani\u2019s Thessaloniki FIlm Festival prize-winning film Cotton Queen. The Opening Night film, the New York premiere of Mohamed Ahmed\u2019s A Tribe Called Love, is a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet tale set in Toronto with families from two different Somali tribes. Akinola Davies Jr.\u2019s critically acclaimed My Father\u2019s Shadow\u00a0\u2014 the U.K.\u2019s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards \u2014 casts a powerful presence over the program.<\/p>\n
The lineup also includes a strong slate of Ugandan films, among them Mira Nair\u2019s Mississippi Masala, now celebrating its 35th anniversary; Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine\u2019s Memories of Love Returned, a documentary chronicling his more than two-decade effort to preserve the photographs of master photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo; Loukman Ali\u2019s taut thriller, The Girl in the Yellow Jumper; and Patience Nitumwesiga\u2019s The Woman Who Poked the Leopard, a documentary about medical anthropologist and LGBTQ rights advocate Dr. Stella Nyanzi, who was jailed for speaking out against state repression. BAM Rose Cinemas is located at 30 Lafayette Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York African Film Festival continues its citywide month-long march, celebrating cinema from all parts of Africa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,11894,749,9,24,11893,63],"class_list":["post-239203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-default-tier","tag-film","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-metro-area","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}