Fiction from USA
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Director Bomani 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.
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The second of 2 documentaries by Sam Pollard screening at the Capri during MSPIFF.*
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.
*MSPIFF 2023 has selected Sam Pollard as their Luminary Tribute showcasing this film, another new release, Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities, and earlier works, Black Art: In the Absence of Light and Two Trains Running (screening at the Capri on 4/14).
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Tickets are FREE to Northsiders. Enter your zip code when you reserve online or redeem at door.
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
Full MSPIFF @ the Capri schedule
Tickets are FREE to Northsiders. Enter your zip code when you reserve online or redeem at door.
The first of 2 documentaries by Sam Pollard screening at the Capri during MSPIFF.*
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.
*MSPIFF 2023 has selected Sam Pollard as their Luminary Tribute, showcasing this film, and two new releases, Max Roach: The Drum Also Walzes (screening at the Capri on 4/14) and Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities, and another earlier work, Black Art: In the Absence of Light.
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The profound friendship between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and their embrace of an all-encompassing happiness in life — despite the incredible challenges that both have faced —is examined in this uplifting documentary from Oscar®-winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) and Peggy Callahan.
Inspired by the international bestseller, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, this inspiring and instructive documentary captures the final public dialogues between these two icons. Self-described as “mischievous brothers”, Rev. Tutu and the Dali Lama examine the myriad ways in which we can discover joy in the worst of situations. Mission: Joy sees the two men sharing stories of their lives, their friendship, discussing scientific research into the benefits of living a joyful life and much more. In a world where social media and partisanship seem to prevail, Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times is an uplifting documentary that is also grounded in real life.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Louie Psihoyos’ debut documentary, The Cove (2009), won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. Mission: Joy (2021) is his most recent film.
Peggy Callahan directed the documentary short film The Unit: Lessons on Living & Dying (2018). Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (2021) is her debut documentary feature.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world right here on the Northside.
Tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Director Jessica Rae Attending
Based on director Jessica Rae’s own experiences growing up in Minneapolis, Raise Your Hand follows best friends Gia and Lila, two midwestern teens of color growing up and facing the challenges of youth. At once raw and honest, and capturing the vicissitudes of teenage life, Raise Your Hand is a vibrant, inspiring film.
Gia and Lila are lifelong friends balancing school and personal connections with their family, friends, boys and neighborhood, including the corrupt local police. Gia struggles to maintain her grades and sort through a tumultuous relationship with her mother and stepfather. She is encouraged to write a play about her life, and soon finds herself bringing her fellow students, and their experiences, together in what becomes a testament to their perseverance and the power of story.
Director Biography
Local filmmaker Jessica Rae holds an MFA from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television and a BFA in Theater Directing from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Her short films include “Soleil” (2007) and “Girl in Tank” (2012). Raise Your Hand (2021) is her debut feature.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world right here on the Northside.
Tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and Actor Omar Abdi Attending
In Djibouti City, Guled literally chases ambulances–he’s a gravedigger who competes with others to procure a cadaver for a meager wage. It’s a living… until his wife, Nasra, is diagnosed with kidney failure, forcing Guled and his young son, Mahad, to take desperate measures to raise money for treatment.
Guled and Nasra are a devoted, loving couple. Abandoning their villages to run off together to the big city, they started a family, and eke out a living with gravedigging and other menial work. But Nasra’s kidney failure weighs heavily on the family, as it would take an entire year’s pay to even begin the necessary treatment.
Finnish Somali writer-director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s poignant and finely observed film is both a damning critique of the health care system and a portrait of people who exist in love despite hideous circumstances. Official Somali entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Director Biography
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed moved to Finland as a refugee when he was 16. He is the director of the short films “Me ei vietetä joulua” (2104), “Yövaras” (2017). Inspired by a death in the family in 2010, he wrote the screenplay for The Gravedigger’s Wife (2021).
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Age 11+, coming of age drama
On the island coast of Curaçao, 11-year-old Kenza lives on a plot of land that has been with their family for generations. As Kenza approaches adolescence, she longs for the mother she never knew. Meanwhile, her father and grandfather clash over the future of their family’s land and ancestry. Kenza’s strict dad is a policeman, assimilated to Dutch ways. However, her grandfather, who also cares for her, is in touch with the spirits of their African and Indigenous ancestors of the Afro Caribbean island. Caught in the middle of their opposing worldviews, Kenza seeks her own understanding of the mysteries of the world while facing hard truths.
This courageous magical-realism coming of age film stands out as a deeper story of navigating between cultures, spirituality and reason, and life and death, based on a legend from the filmmaker’s own mixed heritage. Winner, Best Live Action Feature, NY International Children’s Film Festival 2021.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Director David Grubin Attending
Tamara Lanier’s great-great-great grandfather was an enslaved man named Renty, who was compelled in 1850 to have his photograph taken so that Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz, a celebrated scientist — and virulent racist — could “prove” the superiority of the white race. Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard documents Lanier’s years-long quest to force Harvard to release the daguerreotypes to Renty’s lineal descendants.
Lanier is suing Harvard for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation” of her ancestors’, Renty and Delia’s, images. Featuring commentary from her lawyers, including noted Civil Rights attorney Benjamin Crump, and scholars including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Tina Campt, Free Renty is a troubling look at the legacy of slavery and the lengths powerful institutions will go to avoid confronting the past, as well as a stirring testimony to the courage of those determined to fight for the dignity and respect of their ancestors.
Director Biography
David Grubin is a director, writer, producer, and cinematographer who has produced films that range across history, art, poetry, and science, winning every award in the field of documentary television, including two Alfred I. Dupont awards, three George Foster Peabody prizes, five Writer’s Guild prizes, and ten Emmys.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Director Jo Rochelle Attending
Jasmine is a 16-year-old Minneapolis girl, determined to make a mark on the world. She has albinism (which causes a lack of pigment in the hair, skin, and eyes) and wants to be a model–no, a supermodel!–and represent Black girls and people with this condition. And she’d also love nothing more than being left alone in high school…
Director Biography
Jo Rochelle grew up in Minneapolis, has a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She now lives and works in Los Angeles. She has directed the short film “Sirens” (2019). Jasmine is a Star (2022) is her debut feature.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.