Screening Details
Date: Saturday - October 18, 2025
Time: 4:15 PM​
Duration: 60 MINS
Venue: Cinemark Theater
1670 US-22, Watchung, NJ 07069
Block Description
The African diaspora’s oral traditions have long served as vessels of memory, resilience, and guidance, passing down lessons of struggle, loss, and survival across generations. When translated into cinema, these stories become a powerful collective mirror, shaping community consciousness and reimagining shared identity. By dramatizing lived experiences—whether of displacement, perseverance, or triumph—film carries the same spirit as the griot, transforming personal narratives into universal commandments for living. In this way, cinema rooted in diaspora storytelling does more than entertain; it preserves ancestral wisdom, inspires solidarity, and carves pathways toward healing and empowerment.
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When their homes in rural Jamaica become unsafe, a queer teen and his cousin find refuge and acceptance at their aunt's house and in each other.
Dir. Robert Asencior / 21:45 minutes
A man sits with his thoughts. Reminiscing on unborn tokens of love. Chasing a light feverishly. Hoping its luminance heals his wounds.
Dir. Tifah Todd/ 9:18 minutes
A homeless drug addicted Zoya comes back daughter's life after giving away her baby. She was granted a promise by her daughter's adopted mother Robin she could when Harmony turned 18. When she returns with a gift she doesn't get a warm welcome. Robin tries to run her away and she unexpectedly runs into her daughter but the outcome is not what she expected.
Dir. Greg Cally / 20:00 minutes
In the heart of Harlem, two lifelong friends clash with a white rookie cop, escalating tensions into a dangerous confrontation with deadly stakes.