U.S. Premiere of Antoine at the Tribeca Film Festival

Co-presented with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

Antoine
U.S. PREMIERE
Laura Bari, Canada, 2008, 82 min, in French with English subtitles

Antoine opens with a shot of a five-year-old using a typewriter to describe in great detail how he became blind at birth. The next scene is Antoine receiving a phone call from Madame Rouski, who dissolved into the water while taking a shower. Antoine's mission is to find Madame Rouski. Equipped with his two best friends and a mini boom microphone to help him find clues, Antoine spends two years of his life locating her. Is she in the yellow daffodils, in the air, in Vietnam, or has she turned into a monster?

Antoine is a daring, poetic, and playful docudrama that intimately explores the life of this brilliant and unique boy who is fully integrated into the regular school system in Montreal. Director Laura Bari, with Antoine's help, skillfully presents children's uninhibited and creative thought processes while creating an extensive sensory experience for the viewer. Antoine treats his blindness as a minor interference—he's an embracer of life, not afraid to ingest every possible moment. An inspiration to children and adults alike, Antoine's real and imaginary lives are cleverly intertwined in this debut film, creating an homage to human resilience, optimism, and creativity. --Sara Nodjoumi

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

Monday, Apr 27, 8:00 p.m. at AMC Village VII 6 

Tuesday, Apr 28, 6:45 p.m. at AMC Village VII 4
Friday, May 01, 11:00 a.m. at AMC Village VII 6

Tracking the White Reindeer at the Rubin Museum of Art

Co-presented with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

Tracking the White Reindeer
PREMIERE
Hamid Sardar, France, 2008, 50 min

In the remote plains of northern Mongolia, the Tsaatan nomads are a proud people who live off hunting and gathering. They travel on the backs of reindeer, on which their survival completely depends. Quizilol, 18, and the beautiful Solongo are in love. But Solongo's father believes that the youth is not mature enough to marry his daughter. Only if Quizilol shows that he is capable of raising a herd of reindeer by himself will he marry Solongo. This is the third of Sardar's Central Asian films to be premiered at RMA. Like its predecessors, it was judged Best Film on Mountain Culture at the Banff Film Festival.

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

150 West 17th Street, New York, NY

www.rmanyc.org 

212.620.5000 x344

Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 4, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 5, 6:00 p.m.

NY Premiere of In My Genes at the NY African Film Festival

Co-presented with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

In My Genes
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Lupita Nyong'o, Kenya, 2009, 78 min. 

What is it like to be "white" in a "black" society? Agnes, a woman with albinism, overcomes the difficulties of being born with no pigment in a society that discriminates against the condition. In My Genes asks us to consider how it feels to be a member of one of the most hyper-visible and yet effectively invisible groups of people in a predominantly black society.

16TH ANNUAL NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL

Sunday, April 12th, 9:15 p.m.
Tuesday, April 14th, 5:00P p.m.
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

Through the lenses of emerging directors and veteran filmmakers, the 16th Annual New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will take an introspective journey across the African continent, with films that create a vision of Africa's future through a deconstruction of its past. Under the banner "Africa in Transition," the festival will present a lineup of 35 films from 16 countries throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. Presented AFF and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, the 16th annual NYAFF runs at The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Water Reade Theater April 8th & 14th and continues with 'Beyond the Rainbow: 15 Years into South Africa's Democracy,' a panel discussion held at Columbia University's Institute of African Studies, April 15th.

The festival concludes with screenings at BAMCinematek from May 22nd - May 25th.