Now streaming: Rosa Chumbe 🇵🇪🎬
As part of our Mother’s Day Virtual Film Series, discover this powerful Peruvian drama following a tough, weary police officer navigating faith, family, and survival in the streets of Lima.
Raw, intimate, and deeply human, Rosa Chumbe is a moving portrait of motherhood and redemption.
Stream tonight from home. ✨
#RosaChumbe #PeruvianCinema #MothersDay #VirtualFilmFestival #WorldCinema
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Stream tonight: Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba 🎙️✨
As part of our Mother’s Day Virtual Film Festival, celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary Miriam Makeba — a powerful voice of music, resistance, and African identity.
Watch from home tonight and join us in honoring an icon whose story continues to inspire generations. 🌍❤️🎬
#MamaAfrica #MiriamMakeba #MothersDay #VirtualFilmFestival #AfricanCinem
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Stream powerful films from around the world with the African Diaspora International Film Festival’s Mother’s Day Virtual Film Series. 🎥
Available anywhere in the United States.
For the mothers.
For the stories, memories, and acts of resilience passed from one generation to the next. ❤️
May 10–17
Tickets now available.
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#ADIFFNewYork #MothersDay #VirtualFilmFestival #BlackCinema #IndependentFilm #AfricanDiaspora
#ADIFFNewYork #MothersDay #VirtualFilmFestival #BlackCinema #IndependentFilm #WomenInFilm #AfricanDiaspora #DiasporaStories #ArtMattanFilms #Motherhood #FilmLovers❤️
Mother’s Day Virtual Film Series
May 10–17, 2026
This Mother’s Day, ADIFF invites audiences across the United States to experience 7 films that place mothers at the center of their eternal fight to give their children a better life.
From Canada, the United States, Peru, Cape Verde, Suriname, Mali, and South Africa, these stories move across time and place—revealing the resilience, complexity, and quiet strength of mothers navigating difficult realities.
Featuring films presented at major international festivals including Cannes and TIFF.
Streaming nationwide at nyadiff.org
$10 per film | $25 all-access pass
Take a moment. Watch. Reflect.
Visit: nyadiff.org
#ADIFF #MothersDay #VirtualFilmSeries #AfricanDiaspora #BlackCinema #GlobalCinema #FilmSeries #StreamingNow #IndieFilm #DiasporaStories
A young runner. A living connection to history.
REMAINING NATIVE follows Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner and member of the Yerington Paiute Tribe, connecting his present to his great-grandfather’s past. As he trains and runs, he retraces a history shaped by the U.S. Indian boarding school system and the forced separation of Native families.
The film holds both movement and memory—what it means to carry history forward, and to remain.
đź—“ Sunday, April 26 @ 1:00 PM
đź“Ť Teachers College, Columbia University
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Part of the Transcultural Dialogues Film Series.
#ADIFF #RemainingNative #KuStevens #YeringtonPaiute #IndigenousStories #NativeAmerican #TransculturalDialogues #NYCEvents #FilmScreening
AFRISSIPPI
A sound travels across histories. What remains when it lands?
A man, a guitar, a lineage carried through rhythm—where Africa meets the American South, and memory becomes music.
Sunday, April 26, 5 PM
Teachers College, Columbia University – Room 408 Zankel
Part of the Transcultural Sound Program with Candombe (Uruguay) + Tambu (Jamaica)
Tickets: nyadiff.org
#ADIFF #TransculturalDialogues #Afrissippi #MusicAndMemory #AfricanDiaspora #NYCEvents
Tambu at ADIFF
A day of drumming and dance in Jamaica.
Tambu moves through TambuFest, where rhythm carries memory and traditions are passed across generations.
Kumina. Kromanti. Dinki-mini. Djembe.
Music as continuity. As community. As resistance.
Sunday, April 26 at 5 PM
Teachers College, Columbia University
Room 408 Zankel
Q&A with director Laurie Lambert.
Tickets: nyadiff.org
"A Poet of the River" follows a North Korean teenage defector trying to survive and rebuild her life in South Korea.
She arrives in South Korea, alone.
Same language. Different world.
In this sensitive narrative feature, she moves through a city that does not fully receive her—working, observing, and trying to settle into a life shaped by absence. Her family remains out of reach. What she carries cannot be spoken easily.
The film stays close to her—small gestures, quiet decisions, the weight of starting over. Not a dramatic crossing, but the slow work of being there.
A work of quiet cinematic beauty, the film finds its strength in stillness—where light, silence, and presence reveal what exile feels like from within.
Screening as part of ADIFF’s Transcultural Dialogues Film Series.
Friday, April 24
8:00 PM
Teachers College, Columbia University
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#ADIFF #TransculturalDialogues #APoetOfTheRiver #DiasporaCinema #MigrationStories #FilmScreening
Thrilled to bring Rhythm of Dammam (2024) to the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in Ithaca!
Join us Thursday, April 9 at Cinemapolis for a special screening—beginning with a powerful live performance by Ithaca College’s West African Drumming and Dance Ensemble, directed by Baruch Whitehead.
This film is deeply personal and politically urgent, exploring the Siddi community in India—an African diasporic lineage rarely seen on screen. Through the story of young Jayaram, the film navigates memory, trauma, and healing, carried by the visceral force of Dammam rhythms.
Would love to see friends, colleagues, and the Ithaca community there—come experience this journey with us.
#RhythmOfDammam #FLEFF #Ithaca #DiasporaStories #independentcinema
SEEDS is returning to NYC for a screening and Q&A w/ producer Sabrina Schmidt Gordon at @ny_adiff !
Sunday, March 29
6:30pm ET | Teachers College
525 W 120th St, New York
Get tickets: nyadiff.org or seedsthefilm.com/screenings
This weekend, join us @teacherscollege for #ADIFFNewYork’s “Women’s History Month” film series.
Included in the program are films centering women’s stories as well as films highlighting female directors. Come one come all!
#womenshistorymonth♀️ #womeninfilm #community #nyc
🎬 A Life in Art: Through the Eye of Dr. Leslie King Hammond will be screening at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in celebration of Women’s History Month 2026✨
Join us for a special afternoon in NYC, followed by a Q&A with directors Rassaan Hammond & Ben Baker-Lee 🎤
đź“Ť Teachers College, Columbia University Room 408 Zankel 525 W 120th St, New York, NY
🗓 Saturday, March 28 ⏰ 2:30 PM EST
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This is more than a festival it’s a celebration of women who shape culture, shift narratives, and leave lasting impact.
If you’re in New York, come be in the room with us. 💫
🎟 Tickets available at link in bio (or visit: nyadiff.org)
