African Film Festival: Saint Omer

Saint Omer
In French with English subtitles
Alice Diop, Senegal/France, 2022, 122 minutes
Follow Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea. Things do not go as expected.

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Precious Hair & Beauty
In English and Yoruba with English
John Ogunmuyiwa, United Kingdom, 2021, 11 minutes 
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon.