Q&A with filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, plus reception sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Uganda on March 23
After a chance encounter, filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine spent 22 years documenting the life of Ugandan photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo. This incredible documentary offers a rare and intimate look at the transformative power of photography, as a community uncovers long-lost photos, family secrets and previously unseen relatives, all brought to life through Kibaate’s lens.
March 23, 3:30 p.m. & March 27, 2:40 p.m.

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Two recreational baseball teams have been meeting on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. After the county board opts to raze the baseball diamond, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier's Field. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund's poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America's eternal pastime. A comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who has ever lamented their community slipping away.

Closing Night
When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women bet their futures on the promise of industrialization. As initial hope meets painful realities, they find themselves, like Ethiopia, at a pivotal crossroads.
March 16, 3:10 p.m. with Q&A. Also showing March 21, 2:45 p.m.

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Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2025 Academy Awards^®
Basel Adra is a Palestinian activist living under occupation in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist whose freedom of movement allows him to come and go as he pleases. As unlikely as it might seem, the two strike up a friendship and, together with Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal, form a collective to document the gradual destruction of Masafer Yatta, the forced eviction of its Palestinian residents and the illegal takeover of their lands at the hands of Israeli authorities.

Co-presented by the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF)
The nomadic Samburu people have grazed their cattle for centuries on the picturesque Laikipia Plateau. But when a drought forces them to search for new land, they find their routes blocked by the descendants of British pastoralists. The climate crisis and colonialism collide in this searing documentary.
March 26, 6:30 p.m. & March 27, 4:30 p.m.

Temi Ami-Williams (EYIMOFE) gives a riveting performance as an impoverished young mother who unearths a large sum of cash buried by a corrupt Nigerian official with ties to a real estate development project that threatens the community she lives in.
March 21, 7:00 p.m. & March 25, 8:45 p.m.

Post-screening conversation with Sionne Neely, co-founder of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Mati Diop (ATLANTICS) returns with a dreamlike exploration of complex questions surrounding the repatriation of cultural artifacts. Winner of the Golden Bear award for the best film at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.
March 22, 1:30 p.m.

final week!
Academy Award^®-winning writer/director Bong Joon Ho (PARASITE) returns with the groundbreaking cinematic experience MICKEY 17, an instant satirical sci-fi classic adapted from the novel "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton. Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job: to die, for a living.

In the heart of an anti-terrorism training facility, two soldiers — Mesfin and Samrawit — share a secret love. But when their unit is dispatched on a dangerous mission, they end up tragically separated until a chance encounter years later. TIZITA is a romantic, action-packed thriller from Ethiopia.
March 22, 6:00 p.m.

2025 Oscar^® Selection, Kenya
A star student, Nawi dreams of attending high school are shattered when she learns that her father plans to marry her off to a much older stranger. In a bold move, she flees on her wedding night. Pursued by her own family, she embarks on a journey towards Nairobi, clinging to her dream of a promising future.
March 23, 1:30 p.m. & March 24, 4:30 p.m.

Dreams and reality are seamlessly interwoven to create a lyrical rumination on familial, geographical longing and belonging in Denise Fernandes’ coming-of-age tale set on the volcanic island of Fogo, Cape Verde.
March 23, 7:50 p.m. & March 27, 8:50 p.m.

A family of three living in Paradise, a windswept countryside in Somalia, makes ends meet while aiming for a better life in this sensitive and empathetic work from director Mo Harawe, the first Somali film ever to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.
March 22, 8:45 p.m. & March 24, 6:30 p.m.

Plus so much more!
Moving documentary SEARCHING FOR AMANI and tender, coming-of-age tale CARISSA, both co-presented by DCEFF; SAMIA, the inspirational true story of Somalian Olympic sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar; EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA, a feminist ode to the power of music; SUDAN, REMEMBER US, a chronicle of the work of young activists during the Sudanese civil war; plus so many more films!

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