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  I Am Not a Witch

  I Am Not a Witch

  Directed by Rungano Nyoni • 2017 • Zambia, United Kingdom
  Starring Maggie Mulubwa, Nellie Munamonga, Dyna Mufuni

  The acclaimed debut feature from Rungano Nyoni is a daring, sharply satiric feminist fairy tale set in present-day Zambia. When nine-year-old orphan Shula (Margaret Mulubwa) is accuse...

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  Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

  Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

  Directed by Leslie Harris • 1992 • United States
  Starring Ariyan A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido

  Leslie Harris’s indie touchstone made a splash when it won a special jury prize at Sundance in 1993, offering a window into a world still sorely underrepresented in mainstream cinema: that of...

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  Eve’s Bayou

  Eve’s Bayou

  Directed by Kasi Lemmons • 1997 • United States
  Starring Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson

  “The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old . . .” So begins Kasi Lemmons’s spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in fragrant southern-gothi...