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DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST

JULIE DASH | USA | 1991 | 113 MIN | PG | ENGLISH, FRENCH

Part of the Sight and Sound 100 series
BFI’s 2022 Sight & Sound List #62

Assisted by a deeply-venerated ancestral language, director Julie Dash flows compassionately through intertwining tales in this inventive, intergenerational portrait of three Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands at the start of the 20th century.

Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao

Part of the Philadelphia Film Society’s FILM ESSENTIALS series.

With Film Essentials at the Philadelphia Film Center, PFS is giving audiences the chance to experience some of cinema’s greatest treasures as they were meant to be seen: on the biggest screen in Center City!

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