A Mother Apart + Nwa

A Mother Apart (2024)
Dir. Laurie Townshend
89min, DCP

How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin, renowned for performances in Def Poetry Jam and hit solo shows like MotherStruck!, radically reimagines the essential art of mothering. In seeking her elusive mother—a trail that leads to Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne, and finally Jamaica—Staceyann and her daughter forge a new sense of home.

Join us for a Q&A with Nwa director Hans Augustave, A Mother Apart director Laurie Townshend and film subject Staceyann Chin following the screening.

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NWA (2024)
Dir. Hans Augustave, 20min, DCP
With Nathaniel Sainvilien, Macc Plaise, Roland Lane, Alphonso Walker Jr.
US

In English, French, and Haitian with English subtitles

Frantz, a first-generation Haitian-American boy, is torn between getting a haircut he knows his strict immigrant father would approve of or a trendy cut connecting him to the Black-American culture he's been warned not to embrace.