Black Mother
New Arrivals
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1h 17m
Directed by Khalik Allah | 77 mins | 2018
Allah trains his eye on Jamaica, the land of his mother’s birth, using the progression of a pregnancy as a structural outline. Mysterious and sensual, rich and rhythmic, it’s a mesmerizing symphony of a film, embodying both the spiritual reverence and confrontational reality of the island nation.
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