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Saturday, February 18th
5:00pm
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$7 General Admission
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“Any second-generation born from an ethnic diaspora, and in this case, a black one, living in a Western or European country with a history of colonialism can feel the familiarity of Autumn Beat.” – New Wave Mag
Watch Antonio Dikele Distefano’s Autumn Beat, preceded by a screening of short film Idris, and followed by a public conversation with director Antonio Dikele Distefano and producer-director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, and a cocktail reception.
Autumn Beat: Produced by Amazon Studios and co-produced by Indiana Productions is an exciting and unprecedented story about Black culture in Italy, and the role of music as a means of redemption and search for identity. Two brothers, Tito and Paco have the same dream: to break into the rap music world. Paco is a born performer and Tito knows how to write like no other but ambition, life, and love for the same woman will test their bond.
Screens in Italian with English subtitles, Antonio Dikele Distefano,103 mins, Italy, 2022
Idris: On a day in mid–August, Idris finds himself in a foreign country, without his parents, cared for by a shelter home populated by socially awkward demons, 5 to 14 years old. He’s forced to socialize, playing in a rundown public pool with them. An easy game: fetch some hardware parts from the bottom of the pool. He already came afloat once, swimming back to a boat in the middle of the sea. Will he decide to join his new family waiting for him at the side of the pool?
Screens in Italian with English subtitles, Kassim Yassin Saleh, 13 mins, Italy, 2017
PUBLIC CONVERSATION
On Saturday, February 18th movie director Antonio Dikele Distefano and producer-director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will lead a public conversation, following the screening of Dikele Distefano’s new movie Autumn Beat (2022), produced by Amazon Studios and co-produced by Indiana Productions and presented in Chicago for the first time to the public.
