CEDDO - Featured movie
Please join us to watch a movie, eat a little popcorn and participate in a conversation about how movies are made and why they tell the stories they tell.
Banned in Senegal on an absurd technicality, Ceddo, Sembene’s most ambitious film, uses the story of a beautiful princess’s kidnapping to examine the confrontation between opposing cultural forces: Muslim expansion, Christianity, and the slave trade. The “Ceddo”—or feudal class of common people—cling desperately to their customs and their fetishistic religion amidst the impending changes. Nominally set in the nineteenth century, Ceddo ranges far and wide to include philosophy, fantasy, militant politics, and a couple of electrifying leaps across the centuries to evoke the whole of the African experience.
IP artist Mickies Kiros will host the screening.
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Lead Artist
Mickies Kiros is a developing filmmaker with a keen interest in film centering in Middle Eastern culture.
Location
All activity will take place at In Progress - Studio 213 / 213 Front Avenue Saint Paul MN. 55117