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# Collective Dreams and Women’s Voices at the New York African Film Festival
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-african-film-festival-2021/
- Published: 2021-02-09T17:43:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:38:15.000Z
- Description: This year's virtual edition of the New York African Film Festival includes both experimental gems and several Oscar contenders.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Events, Film at Lincoln Center, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

The 28th edition of the [New York African Film Festival](https://africanfilmny.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (taking place online this year, of course) bears the theme "Notes from Home: Recurring Dreams & Women’s Voices." [The festival's mission statement](https://africanfilmny.org/festival/2021-statement/?ref=hyperallergic.com) explains the curation this way: "As the lines between our global communities become more blurred (or disappear altogether), so too does our perception of the spaces in which we find ourselves \[...\]" Likewise, the program features films "by and about African women that celebrate the beauty and strength of these women standing tall as catalysts of change."

The lineup features Desmond Ovbiagele’s *The Milkmaid* (Nigeria’s entry for the 2021 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film), about a woman who defies religious extremists in her town, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s acclaimed *This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection* (Lesotho’s first ever Oscar entry), about an old woman whose arrangements for her burial are endangered when her village is slated to be destroyed by the construction of a new dam. The virtual festival is being presented jointly by Film at Lincoln Center and Maysles Documentary Center. For the first two weeks of the month-long fest, half of the features and shorts in the program will be [available to stream via FLC](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/new-york-african-film-festival/?ref=hyperallergic.com), following which the rest will be [available through Maysles](https://www.maysles.org/28th-nyaff?ref=hyperallergic.com).

On February 10, scholar June Givanni will moderate a panel discussion on the history and current possibilities of African cinema with filmmakers Gaston Kaboré, Ngozi Onwurah, and Hlumela Matika. [Registration to watch through FLC is free](https://filmlinc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN%5F2aEig-LZS-S4yQIKiYk7Bg?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Individual films can be rented to stream for $12 each, while [an all-access pass for the FLC program](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/bundle/new-york-african-film-festival-2021-all-access-pass/?ref=hyperallergic.com) costs $100.

**When**: Through February 14 via Film at Lincoln Center, then February 18 through March 4 via Maysles Documentary Center  
**Where**: Online

*More info at the* [*New York African Film Festival*](https://africanfilmny.org/festival/2021-festival/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* [*Film at Lincoln Center*](https://virtual.filmlinc.org/page/new-york-african-film-festival/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, and* [*Maysles Documentary Center*](https://www.maysles.org/28th-nyaff?ref=hyperallergic.com) *websites.*