The eighth edition of the annual festival of black independent film runs through Thursday, August 17, at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Pl., 947-0600; at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson, 443-3737; and at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton, 281-4114. Tickets are $5, $3 for Blacklight members. For more information call 509-2981.
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HERITAGE AFRICA Kwah Ansah’s film from Ghana, receiving its U.S. premiere, concerns a young African during the colonialist period who renounces his identity in order to become an African district commissioner. After experiencing many humiliations from the British elite that he attempts to join, he begins to rediscover his African roots. (Film Center, Friday and Sunday, July 28 and 30, 6:00)
LORDS OF THE STREET A film from the Ivory Coast by actor Sijiri Bakaba in his first turn as a director. The plot concerns the son of a tribal king (Georges T. Benson) who returns home after two years in Paris and becomes involved with gangsters. Other actors include Bakaba himself, Pierre-Loup Rajot, and several leading African entertainers in the nightclub sequences (1988). Bakaba will appear at the Friday screening. (Film Center, Friday, July 28, 9:00, and Saturday, July 29, 8:00)
