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01/31/2024

Since 1991, the Cascade Festival of African Films has brought African cinema to Portland. CFAF shows us Africa through African lenses. In 2024, CFAF is thrilled to partner with Multnomah County Library in streaming films for home audiences. The curated list below provides films from past festivals and books related to this year's films. Please check out the CFAF website for all the details about this year's films and in-person festival events https://www.africanfilmfestival.org/

01/10/2023

33rd Annual Cascade Festival of African Films
February 3 – March 4, 2023
In celebration of Black History Month at Portland Community College
Details here: https://2023.africanfilmfestival.org/

February 3 – March 4, 2023 In celebration of Black History Month at Portland Community College A hybrid virtual/in-person festival Free and open to the public The Cascade Festival of African Films shows us Africa through the eyes of Africans, rather than a vision of Africa packaged for Western vie...

06/08/2022

Join us for a FREE Juneteenth Screening of Wax Print
From June 18th to June 21st, join DER for an exclusive free screening of Wax Print in celebration of Juneteenth!

The film traces the vast and multi-stranded global history of a fabric that has become an iconic symbol of Africa and her children worldwide. This beautiful, transnational two-year journey has taken director Aiwan Obinyan around the world, in search of African wax prints and the untold story of how wax print fabric came to symbolize a continent, its people, and their struggle for freedom.

Register here to get the screening link and promo code and watch the film June 18th-June 21st.

WAX PRINT traces the vast and multi-stranded global history of a fabric that has become a symbol of Africa and her children worldwide.