AFF Inc. presents: "Tey (TODAY)", by Alain Gomis

(Tey) - Dir. by Alain Gomis

Friday, October 11th
8:00 pm
(We certainly don't want you rushing from work! So we changed the time from 6 to 8pm; tell your co-workers and friends)

Director Alain Gomis will be in Attendance for a post-screening dialogue!!

My Image Studios (MIST)
40 W 116th St (between Lenox and Fifth Ave), NEW YORK

"TEY"
Alain Gomis, Senegal, 2012, 86m
Today is the last day of Satché's life. He knows this to be true even though he is strong and healthy. Nonetheless Satché (played by American actor-musician Saül Williams) accepts his imminent death. Walking through the streets of his home town in Senegal he takes in the sites of his past as if he were looking at them for the last time: his parents' house, his first love, the friends of his youth, his wife and children. Time and again he hears the same reproach: why didn't he stay in America, where he would have a future? Satché encounters his final moments full of fear but also with a sense of joy. In his film, director Alain Gomis takes a well-worn topic in Senegalese cinema and turns it on its head: unlike other films, many of which choose to focus on emigration and neo-colonialism, Gomis' work instead tells the story of a man who leaves America to return to the land of his birth. [Synopsis courtesy of Berlin International Film Festival]

Post-Screening Q&A with Director, Alain Gomis!

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edited by Thierno I. DIA