MSPIFF @ the Capri: 4/14, 15, 16
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Five Fantastic Films!
Tickets are FREE to Northsiders. Enter your zip code when you reserve online or redeem at door.
Dates and times for all five movies below.
FRIDAY, April 14
Two Documentaries by Sam Pollard
5PM: TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’
Two Trains Runnin’ is a feature-length documentary directed by Sam Pollard, narrated by Common, and featuring the music of Gary Clark Jr. The film pays tribute to a pioneering generation of musicians and cuts to the heart of our present moment, offering a crucial vantage from which to view the evolving dynamics of race in America. Named one of the best documentaries of 2017 by Rolling Stone magazine, Two Trains Runnin’ was also honored with a Grammy nomination for Best Music Film.
7PM: MAX ROACH: THE DRUM ALSO WALTZES
Max Roach was one of the most innovative drummers in music history, often reinventing himself in a career that spanned over six decades. Accessing literally thousands of hours of footage and photographs, Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes is a rigorous and triumphant documentary about a legendary musician.
SATURDAY, April 15
4PM: TOTEM
Family Fiction from Senegalese Ama, the daughter of two Senegalese asylum seekers, is a competitive swimmer growing up in Rotterdam. When her family’s home is raided, she escapes, lost in the city she thought she knew, until a giant magical porcupine comes to her rescue and gives her the strength she needs to save her family. –Deborah Girdwood
6:30PM: THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER
Fiction from USA
Director Domani J. Story Attending!
“It has been a dream of mine to bring an adaptation of Frankenstein to film through the Black lens with a lead character as smart as my sister.” Director Bomani J. Story has done just that with The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a stunning and fresh take on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic.
SUNDAY, April 16
2PM: DUSTY AND STONES
Fiction from Africa
Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi are a Country Western duo known as Dusty & Stones and hailing from an unlikely place, the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). They get their big break to come to Nashville to record and compete in a Texas battle of the bands. It’s a dream come true, until they’re confronted with some harsh realities.