Feature: A New Country

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25 years after its birth as a democratic country, South Africa remains the most unequal society in the world according to the World Bank. Have South Africans created a situation that is so complex that even a nation heralded for a peaceful transition to democracy, cannot untangle the problem?

U.S. Premiere

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This lyrical film is a meditation on resistance, nature, and history. Prof. Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku speaks to us today as many in America struggle to find their own liberation. The other text, contributed by filmmakers Marlene and Nadine Patterson, is a list of enslaved Africans Tubman freed.

Philadelphia Premiere

Aug. 23

A New Country

60 min.

Screens with:

We Are Free Because of Harriet Tubman