KANKANTRI is coming to the Harlem International Film Festival!

When: May 16 at 3:30pm
Where: The Forum at Columbia University (125 Street and Broadway)

KANKANTRI (the silk cotton tree)

A woman enters a place of worship and is transported to the parallel universe of all her ancestors who do not let her leave, until she participates in their dances and rituals, and exits integrated.

This is an essay film, a film that combines ART + documentary. Also seen as a hybrid dancefilm, screendance. KANKANTRI is shot on location in Suriname, South America. It's a post colonial response to a place and a dutch history of slavery and its consequences.

This will be this film's North American premiere. Read more about KANKANTRI here. 
 
Writer, Director, Producer: Gabri Christa
Director of Photography and Editor: Steven Elbers
Producer: Ann Hermelijn
Starring: Honore van Ommeren
Composer: Mazz Swift 
Sound Design and Sound Edit: Eve Cuyen
Assistant Producer, Sound recordist, and Driver: Chavelli Montsanto