Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange - Season 17
Season 17
Episodes
Mother Suriname and The Changing Same
Mother Suriname - A deeply evocative portrayal of Suriname's history woven through the personal story of a woman reflecting on her life. The film uses captivating, colorized archival footage to illustrate the lives of Surinamese women, including filmmaker Tessa Leuwsha's grandmother, who was a washerwoman.
The Changing Same - In the Florida Panhandle lies the provincial town of Marianna, where resident and poet L. Lamar Wilson runs a particular marathon in hopes of lifting the veil of racial terror caused by the town's buried history.
Tongo Saa
Tongo Saa is set in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the government's plans to build a large hydroelectric power plant leaves many residents in darkness and insecurity. The city's uneven distribution of electricity causes many locals to navigate life after sunset using torches and other means to provide their own infrastructure and security amid constant violence.
Neptune Frost and Tsutsue
Neptune Frost - This Afrofuturist romantic musical, executive produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is set in a post-civil war Rwanda and spans past, future and present times. It follows the relationship between Neptune, an intersex hacker, and Matalusa, a coltan miner. The story unfolds in a village made of computer parts, where Neptune and Matalusa join a hacker collective to challenge the authoritarian regime exploiting their region's natural resources. The film uses music, African oral tradition and song-poetry to explore themes of patriarchy, feminism and liberation.
Tsutsue - An Afrofuturistic narrative film set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of an oceanside landfill. There, two sons of a fisherman — Sowah and Okai — struggle to cope with the death of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition.
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