EVENTS/ ÉVÈNEMENTS

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American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class African-American boys who entered a very prestigious--and historically white--private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Dalton School had made a commitment to recruit students of color, and five-year-old best friends Idris Brewster and Oluwaseun (Seun) Summers of Brooklyn were two of the gifted children who were admitted. The boys were placed in a demanding environment that provided new opportunities and challenges, if little reflection of their cultural identities.

A film by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster.

***The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal is halted by death threats, CJ sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America.

A film by C.J Hunter.

***The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-neutral-ground-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-280401848477

Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community of Pebas, visiting his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten. A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting and Vision Maker Media. Official Selection, Hot Docs Film Festival.

A film by Núria Frigola Torrent

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. **

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-song-of-butterflies-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-187401652387

The Distant Barking of Dogs follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg over a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of the on-going war in Eastern Ukraine. Having no other place to go, Oleg and his grandmother Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village, showing just how crucial—and fragile—family is for survival.

A film  by Simon Lereng Wilmont 

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov 

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The film paints a powerful contemporary portrait of the impact of Alzheimer’s disease, the power of art and the meaning of family.

The Genius of Marian is a visually rich, emotionally complex story about one family’s struggle to come to terms with the changes Alzheimer’s disease brings. After Pam White is diagnosed at age 61 with early onset Alzheimer’s, life begins to change, slowly but irrevocably, for Pam and everyone around her. Pam’s husband grapples with his changing role from primary partner to primary caregiver. Her adult children find ways to show their love and support while mourning the slow loss of their mother.

As she loses the ability to write, Pam’s eldest son, Banker, begins to record their conversations, allowing her to share memories of childhood and of her own mother, the renowned painter Marian Williams Steele who died of Alzheimer’s in 2001.

A film by BANKER WHITE

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-genius-of-marian-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-185377658567?aff=erelpanelorg

Without a home, the story of Dominicans of Haitian descent.

In 2013, the Dominican Republic's Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929, rendering more than 200,000 people stateless. A young attorney, Rosa Iris, forms a campaign to defend their citizenship.

A film by Michèle Stephenson

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This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

Is water a commodity or a right?

Examining water conflicts in Bolivia, India and Stockton, California, Thirst shows that popular opposition to the privatization of water sparks remarkable coalitions that cross partisan lines. When it comes to water, many people demand local control and fear the arrival of multinational corporations with large lobbying budgets and little local loyalty. This film is a piercing look at the conflict between public stewardship and private profit, where activists claim that water is a human right and corporations declare it a commodity.

A film by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

Register here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thirst-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-185368461057

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

African Heritage Month takes place every year in September in the county of Montgomery in Maryland where House Of Djeli is located. 

To celebrate this, we are hosting a livestream event that will be a combination of music, spoken word, talks and more from the Black diaspora.

Though the event is free, your donations are greatly appreciated to support us. 

Here's the link to our PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/houseofdjeli

 Thank you!

Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, QUEST is the moving portrait of a family from North Philadelphia. Beginning during the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" raise a family while nurturing a community of hip hop artists in their basement home music studio. Epic in scope, QUEST is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope.

A film by Jonathan Olshefski and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon 

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quest-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-168821183705

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

Heading an African-American and Jewish production team, filmmakers Deborah Kaufman, Bari Scott and Alan Snitow go behind the explosive headlines of conflict to reveal four riveting stories. From death on the streets of Crown Heights to director Steven Spielberg’s controversial visit to a predominantly black high school in East Oakland, the film resists simple analysis and treads provocatively on the fault lines of racial coalition and conflict.

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blacks-and-jews-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-166363005227

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities, and create a more positive future for their youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, they are providing models of restorative justice that are working. Mainstream courts across the country are taking notice.

A film by Anne Makepeace

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tribal-justice-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-164039517613

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

In New Jersey, the parents of a boy on the autism spectrum take matters into their own hands. They form a competitive swim team, recruiting diverse teens on the spectrum and training them with high expectations and zero pity. 

Swim Team chronicles the extraordinary rise of the Jersey Hammerheads, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels winning.

A film by Lara Stolman

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/163440343467

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

THROUGH THE NIGHT is a cinema verité portrait of three working NY mothers whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.

A film by Loira Limbal

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/through-the-night-a-virtual-film-screening-tickets-161358819573

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico, is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. Conflagrant revelry engulfs the town, while artisans show off their technical virtuosity. For the three-quarters of Tultepec residents who work in pyrotechnics, the festival anchors their way of life. It is an explosive event with unrestrained delight and real peril. Plunging headlong into the fire, Brimstone & Glory honors the spirit of Tultepec's community and celebrates celebration itself.

A film by Viktor Jakovleski.

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. **

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City's historic Harlem neighborhood, HOMEGOINGS takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. Combining cinéma vérité with intimate interviews and archival photographs, the film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones “home.”

A film by Christine Turner

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov 

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With adultery being punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son Mani. Love Child is an intimate love story about an illicit family on a journey to seek asylum in Turkey and start a new life.

A film by Eva Mulvad and Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær.

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This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov 

*** The screening will be followed by a short discussion. ***

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Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave, the other content to stay—builds into a high stakes family drama after her brother and the couple's neighbors escape. 

A film by Kim Hopkins and Margareta Szabo and Capella Fahoome.

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This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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The Apology follows three former "comfort women" who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Seventy years after their imprisonment and after decades of living in silence and shame, the survivors give their first-hand accounts of the truth for the record, seeking apology and the hope that this horrific chapter of history not be forgotten.

A film by Tiffany Hsiung (2016)

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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In a hidden safehouse in the Ghanaian forest, social workers help two children recover from a childhood enslaved to fishermen on Lake Volta - the largest man-made lake on Earth. But their story takes an unexpected turn when their rescuer embarks on another rescue mission and asks the children for help. The Rescue List charts the unfolding drama of these rescue operations alongside a stirring portrait of the boys’ recoveries as they prepare to return to their families. The film depicts a moving story of friendship and courage that transcends the trope of victimhood, exploring what it means to love and to survive.

A film by Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink.

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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A true story of two young immigrants who get purposefully arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center. The film follows Marco and Viri, members of a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention.

A film by CRISTINA IBARRA - DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

ALEX RIVERA -DIRECTOR

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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 Boniface “Softie” Mwangi has long fought injustices in his country as a political activist. Now he’s taking the next step by running for office in a regional Kenyan election. From the moment Boniface decides to run, telling his wife, Njeri, in passing with a hesitant laugh, he responds to each challenge with optimism. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents becomes increasingly harder to combat with idealism alone. And Boniface soon finds that challenging strong political dynasties is putting his family at risk. Should country really come before family, as he’s always believed?

Written and Directed by Sam Soko  

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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Ten-year-old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages. As he shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him we see his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic. We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures, shares his truths and somewhere in-between finds space to dream, imagine and hope for his future self.

A film by Maya Newell -Director. Producer. DOP. Editor.

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmakers, Survivors presents a heart-connected portrait of their country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the socio-political turmoil that lies in its wake.

A film by Arthur Pratt

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And She Could Be Next follows the grassroots campaigns of six women of color running for political office during the contentious 2018 United States midterm elections. 

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Inside Qatar's labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own. 

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PART 1 

And She Could Be Next follows the grassroots campaigns of six women of color running for political office during the contentious 2018 United States midterm elections. 

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This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

After civil war breaks out in Sierra Leone in 1991, thousands flee to the nearby country of Guinea. At a refugee camp, guitarist Francis Langba meets singer Reuben M. Koroma and his wife, Grace, and the three begin playing together. Over the years, the group expands to become a six-piece ensemble.

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov

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Sabine is a charismatic, larger-than-life personality crammed into a tiny shop in the immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants and talking about life back home in Cameroon. Subtitled in Eng

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov 

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The true story of Manuel Henrique Pereira, who rose to fame in Brazil as a fighter for freedom and a master of Capoeira (a fusion of dance and martial arts), is brought to the screen in this historical drama.
In the early 1920s, slavery had been outlawed in Brazil, but that did little to improve the lives of the poor blacks that worked the nation's plantations and were still treated like beasts and not men. Col. Venancio (Flavio Rocha), the owner of a large agricultural operation, is outraged when he learns that one of his overseers, Master Alipio (Macale), has been teaching Capoeira to his employees.
Few believe it's a coincidence when Alipio is found dead under mysterious circumstances, and the ghost of Alipio appears before Manuel Pereira (Aílton Carmo), nicknamed Besouro and one of his star students. Alipio urges Besouro to use his talents to lead a revolt against Venancio and others like him so that people may enjoy prosperity and respect; communing with the gods, Besouro hones his skills to levels unknown to his peers, and leads a battle of the poor against the powerful.
Besouro was the first feature film from director Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff, who previously established himself directing television commercials.
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Brasil / Fiction/ Directed by Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff,