Opening Films: PUSHA PRESSA PHANDA / Digging For Life / Embarrassed

PUSHA PRESSA PHANDA

Pusha Pressa Phanda is a dissection of freedom. Taking place in one day the film follows street youth Mandisa as she struggles to obtain medication and sanitary pads for her sister who is under her care. Faced with numerous obstacles along the way, Mandisa represents the struggle inherently facing women in their relentless pursuit for survival. Traversing one of the main business centres of Johannesburg's streets in order to find materials to recycle in exchange for money, Mandisa faces the brutality of the city’s underworld all for a basic need. 

Topical and thought provoking the film aims to explore the narrative of endurance in an unforgiving landscape, challenging perceptions of societal norms and interrogating what has become dysfunctionally permissible in the existence of a woman’s narrative viewed in the microcosm of a day in her life.

Digging For Life

When a young Cameroonian man attempts to pursue the dream of a better life in post-apartheid South Africa, he instead finds himself trapped as a slave in Angola.

Embarrassed

 A Sir Steve McQueen film to raise awareness and reduce embarrassment of Prostate Cancer to the black community. Produced by UK charity, Male Cancer Awareness Campaign and Lammas Park.Staring Edris Elba OBE. Chiwetel Ejiofor CBE, Micheal Ward and Mr. Morgan Freeman.

BIBFF 2022 OFFICIAL REEL

The 9th Annual Black Film Festival features over 60 films from 14 countries on October 6-16, 2022. We are proud to bring this amazing group of "Official Selections" to Baltimore City both in our Virtual Theatre and at the SNF Parkway Theatre in Baltimore's Station North Arts District. Enjoy the films and be sure to use the unique pairs and shorts programs to have you own #ReelUnity moment.