New York African Film Festival

African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF)’s flagship program, the annual New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) is curated around a timely theme and presented in collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center, Maysles Cinema, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMcinématek. During the festival, which runs for 3 weeks in the spring, approximately forty to fifty classic and contemporary films are screened, including rarely seen archival works. Films are followed by discussions with filmmakers and/or other film experts, as well as workshops and public talks.

The festival has been attended by African film pioneers such as Ousmane Sembène and Safi Faye, as well as other notable established filmmakers who showed their first films at the NYAFF.