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Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the kickoff of the 30th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) at FLC from May 10 to 16. Launched in 1993 and one of the first of its kind in the United States, the festival reflects on the myriad ways African and diaspora storytellers have used the moving image as a mold to tell stories with their own nuances and idiosyncrasies. Under the banner, Freeforms, the festival presents over 30 films from more than...

The festival, which is run by the American Film Institute, has a crop of outstanding, must-see African films on offer this year.

Angolan film Our Lady of the Chinese Shop is taking the world by storm.

The debut feature from Angolan director Ery Claver deftly boils down the knotty politics of China’s gnawing influence over Angola into the story of one merchant’s opportunism. But its panoply of styles and modes lacks discipline.

A dreamlike movie with a modern-day nightmare, Air Conditioner, written and directed by Fradique, begins with a radio news broadcast that alerts the public of a spate of air conditioners falling out…