Now streaming nationwide through Sunday as part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival’s Mother’s Day Virtual Series: Cape Verde, My Love (Cabo Verde, Nha Cretcheu), a landmark film by Cape Verdean filmmaker Ana Ramos Lisboa. Praia, Cape Verde. Laura, Flavia and Bela are childhood friends. Each leads her own life and they sometimes meet to dance, dine and have fun. But one day the calm rivers of their lives break their banks and become wild torrents: Ricardo, Flavia's husband,...

Streaming now: Celebrate motherhood through a selection of films from the African Diaspora International Film Festival’s Mother’s Day Virtual Series, streaming May 10–17. The program brings together films that place mothers at the center of their struggle to create better lives for their children. The films come from Canada, the United States, Peru, Cape Verde, Suriname, Mali, and South Africa, spanning colonial histories and present-day realities. Together, they reveal the resilience of...

When a person leaves a country, dialogue has already begun—whether spoken or not. As part of this month’s Transcultural Dialogues series at Teachers College, Columbia University, we highlight Glorious Exit as our DVD of the week. Glorious Exit reflects the core of the Transcultural Dialogues series: the multiple conversations that emerge when individuals move between cultures, and the ways these encounters reshape identity, belonging, and connection. Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Nigerian actor...