Please join BVFCC staffer, Raizine Bruton, for her January Screening Series focused on women directors. The second installation in the series is a gorgeously sumptuous film: Julie Dash's 1991 Daughters of the Dust.

“Daughters of the Dust,” Julie Dash’s vast yet intimate drama, set in 1902, about the preparations of an extended family on one of the Sea Islands, off the coast of Georgia, to migrate to the American mainland. It’s a movie that runs less than two hours and feels like three or four—not in sitting time but in substance, in historical scope and depth of emotion, in the number of characters it brings to life and the novelistic subtlety of the connections between them, in the profusion of its ideas and the cinematic imagination with which they’re realized, in the sensuous beauty of its images and sounds and the indelibly exalted gestures that it impresses on one’s memory. - New Yorker, 11/18/16

The film begins at 7pm and there is a suggested donation of $7. The café will be open for beer, wine, and café drinks and free popcorn will be available.