The Inheritance
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1h 42m
Directed by Ephraim Asili | 87 mins | 2020
Asili’s feature debut is a vivacious, fascinating, fierce and funny ensemble piece set almost entirely inside a West Philadelphia house in which a collective of Black artists and activists have convened, twining together their scripted attempts to arrive at political consensus with a documentary reminiscence of the radical MOVE group, victims of a 1985 police bombing.
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