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The festival will run at Film at Lincoln Center with some screenings at Maysles Documentary Center May 8 through May 14. Over 50 films—from Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo—and 20 other nations will be presented. As in past years, this festival, whose theme is “Convergence of Time,” concludes at the Brooklyn Academy of Music–Film Africa.
Opening Night features the North American premiere of “Over the Bridge” by acclaimed Nigerian director Tolu Ajayi. Per the press release, the suspense drama film is centered around “corruption in Lagos where Folarin, a successful investment banker whose company is contracted by the government to oversee a high-profile project, searches for answers when the project goes awry, which leads him to a remote fishing village to put the pieces of the mystery together.
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