"Motherland" - Film screening with guest filmmaker Johanna Mabaki

Join us on Friday, May 22 at 4:30 p.m. for a special screening of "Motherland" (2026), a short film by Senegalese filmmaker Johanna Mabaki, who will be present for a discussion following the screening.

Premiering first at the New York African Film Festival on May 17, "Motherland" explores questions of memory, migration, artistic expression, and diasporic identity through the story of African American ballerina Sabrina Marie Ramsey.

Sabrina, her family, and the dancers featured in the project will also be in attendance for this exceptional Dallas screening.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a rich and engaging conversation around francophone and diasporic cultures.

Here is a brief synopsis of the film: “I left my mother’s country, just as she had before me. It was in the heart of Harlem that I met Sabrina. An African American ballerina, she was the first in her family to leave the South for the Big Apple. She shared with me how dance had freed her from her maternal homeland.”

This screening promises to open a particularly rich conversation around questions of memory, migration, transmission, and artistic expression within francophone and diasporic spaces.

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Co-hosted with: French Club, Social Change and Intercultural Engagement, Meadows Film & Media Arts

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