Film Festival

ADIFF Chicago 2024

Screening June 14-16, 2024

Ticketing

$13 /Single Ticket
$10
/FACETS Members & Students
$15
/Screening w/ Q&A + Reception
$20 /
Opening & Closing Night
$20
/Double Feature

$65 /All-Access Pass

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Festival Programmer

African Diaspora International Film Festival

The Chicago African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF Chicago) returns to FACETS June 14-16, 2024. 

Since its inception, ADIFF Chicago have presented culturally significant films that explore the Black and Indigenous experience, giving a multidimensional voice to often misrepresented realities and peoples. This year, ADIFF Chicago brings a special selection of films and events to FACETS, spotlighting a range of subjects and topics, like colorism, the Harlem Renaissance, Brazil, and the work of filmmaker Rolf de Heer. 

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

7pm – Colorism in Latino Communities

Opening Night (Special Event)

7:30pm – Opening Night Reception

8:30pm – Respect My Crown + Q&A

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

11am – Walter Rodney, What They Don’t Want You to Know

Celebrating Two Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Double Feature)

1pm – Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2:45pm – Claude McKay: From Harlem to Marseille

4:45pm – Nome

Dusable Association Screening 

6:30pm  – Reception

7:30pm – A Heart on the Mend + Q&A

SUNDAY, JUNE 16

Rolf de Heer’s Cinematic Visions (Double Feature)

11am – The Tracker
1pm – The Survival of Kindness

Spotlight on Brazil (Double Feature)

3pm – Rolê – Stories of Brazilian Protests in Malls
5pm – Power Alley

Closing Night (Special Event)

6pm – Closing Night Reception

7pm – One Person, One Vote + Q&A

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