2026 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film

Name: 2026 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film
Start: 2026-11-10T11:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-11T01:30:00+00:00
Location: Sonja H Stone Cetner (Hitchcock - Room 111)

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When: Tuesday, November 10, 20266:30 AM – 8:30 PM ESTAdd to calendar Google Calendar
Where: Sonja H Stone Cetner (Hitchcock - Room 111)Open in Maps
Hosted by: The Sonja H Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History

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Since 2004, the Stone Center’s annual Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film has been showcasing films from all corners of the African diaspora. Diaspora Film Festival screenings are marked by lively post-screening Q&A, in-depth commentary, critique, and contextualization with filmmakers, scholars and attendees.

Screenings details for the 2025 edition of the festival are as follows:

• 10 September | 6:30PM | Shorts-Narr| The Devil Wears Madras (47 MIN), Prayer (14 MIN), Washed, Driftwood (7MIN)

• 17 September | 6:30PM| Shorts | Washed, Cleansed and Buried (7 MIN), What We Carry (14 MIN), Tale of a Sundown Town (20 MIN), The Garden of Healing (31 MIN)

• 1 October | 6:30PM

• 22 October | 6:30PM, Shorts-Narr | Reverence: Reclaiming the Forgotten (32 MIN), Way Back Home (20 MIN) , Good Home Training (12 MIN)

• 5 November | 12:05PM | Viva Yurumanguí (80 MIN)

• 10 November | 6:30PM | Docu | The Eternal Song: Eseuseu (61 MIN)

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