NYAFF30: Sisterhood

Sunday, May 21 at 12:30 PM

Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price 

Sisterhood (New York Premiere)
Mohamed Sessy Kamara, 2022, Sierra Leone, 72m
Krio and Fula with English subtitles

Husinatu and Hassanatu, twin sisters living in Sierra Leone, decide to move together to the Middle East to find better lives for themselves, their children, and their parents. Despite Husinatu's frustrating experiences in the Middle East in the past, both sisters are determined to achieve their goal. Faced with the coronavirus crisis, they search for money in order to obtain new passports, visas, and travel arrangements through legal and illegal migration agents. The decision to migrate creates a conflict with their parents. Their father has always been supportive, but their mother, who wants them to get married and build a life in their own country, tries to stop them. But the twins don’t want a man controlling them and seek independence as they are convinced that a better life is not in their home country. This is a film about family relations, the search for independence, and a better future in opposition to family traditions

Post-screening Q&A with Mohamed Sessy Kamara