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POSTPONED: Aya of Yop City

  • maysles documentary center 343 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)
Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie, 2012, 85min, France

Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie, 2012, 85min, France

DUE TO RAIN, THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

Aya, a 19 year old girl lives with her parents in Yop City, a neighborhood in Abidjan. She spends time with her best friends Adjoua and Bintou. While Adjoua and Bintou like to spend her evenings dancing, drinking and flirting, Aya would like to become a doctor. Trouble starts when Adjoua realizes she is pregnant by Moussa who is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country. 

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