Featuring recent award-winning films from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal, and the United States, the West African Cinema Series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred.

• Saturday, September 29, 2 pm: Sembene! (Senegal, Not rated, 2015)
• Saturday, October 13, 2 pm: Green White Green (Nigeria, Rated PG, 2017)
• Saturday, December 8, 2 pm: Borders (Burkina Faso, Not rated, 2017)
• Saturday, December 15, 2 pm: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Liberia, Not rated, 2008)

ABOUT BORDERS

Burkinabe director Apolline Traoré poignantly explores the developing friendships among four women from different regions as they travel by bus across a gorgeous West African landscape in an everyday journey that is nonetheless fraught with nerve-wracking peril, especially for women. Adjara, Emma, Sali and Micha, meet on a bus while travelling through five countries in seven days, wherein they endure injustices from sexual assault, harassment, and extortion from men and governments who control the borders that they must cross to make a living trading goods. They risk their lives, but will not stop for the survival of their family.(Burkina Faso | Not rated | 2017 | 1 hour, 30 minutes)

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