BLACK INDIANS

The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) and the McCord Museum have organized a full program of documentaries on fashion, photography and artistic expression. There will be a screening with guests the last Thursday of each month. Mark it on your calendar!

Screening of the documentary Black Indians, which focuses on a little-known minority in the United States: people of dual Indigenous and African-American heritage. The film takes a look at Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and the Black Indian community tradition of staging a flamboyant parade in honour of its ancestors.Full of joyful music and dance, Black Indians explores the roots of call and response, a musical form that is the last living African cultural tradition and one of the sources of jazz.Presented as part of Black History Month, the screening will be followed by a discussion of the issue of the expression of ethnically mixed identities, hosted by Michael A. Farkas, president of the Black History Month round table.

Black Indians, France, 2018, 91 min., Jo Béranger, Edith Patrouilleau and Hugues Poulain
In English, with French subtitles