The tenth edition of the annual festival of black independent film continues Friday, August 9, through Monday, August 12, at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson, and the DuSable Museum of African American History, 56th Place and Cottage Grove. Tickets are $5 ($7 for True Identity), with discounts available to Blacklight and Film Center members. For more information call 509-2981.
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FINZAN A young widow dares to reject the West African practice of “wife inheritance” when her brother-in-law claims her as his third wife in Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s feature from Mali, a picture that’s highly recommended by my colleagues (1990). (Film Center, 6:00)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10
IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE and SOULS OF SIN William Greaves’s 1989 documentary about Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), the pioneering black journalist and advocate of women’s rights; Al Freeman narrates, and Toni Morrison reads from Wells’s writings. On the same program, Powell Lindsey’s 1948 feature Souls of Sin, which stars Greaves as a musician who shares a Harlem flat with a gambler and an unemployed writer. (Film Center, 2:00)
WALK ON WHITE NAILS The world premiere of a feature by Alonzo Crawford that explores the relationship between a white businesswoman and a black dentist. (DuSable Museum, 9:00)
