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Seeing Africa from many angles

Upcoming MFA film festival explores continent's past, present, and future

By Wesley Morris
Globe Staff / January 27, 2008

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Entertainment is rarely the point of the Museum of Fine Arts' African Film Festival - certainly not for its own sake. The films in this year's group want to impart wisdom or serve as a wake-up call. If they amuse or thrill, it's a bonus. They wrestle with recent history and contemplate change. Other years have seen the festival, which ... (Full article: 896 words)

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