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SCREENS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 AT THE GRAND LAKE THEATER
SABAR - life is a dance!
An African American hip-hop girl resists the ancestral call of the Senegalese dance "Sabar". When she finally gives in, she discovers more than a dance - she finds herself.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – PRESENT DAY:
AISHA has been dancing hip-hop all her life and cannot understand why her best friend is crazy about African dance. On a dare, she goes to the dance studio "just to see her friend" but when she leaves, the dance follows and haunts her. Soon this hip-hop girl becomes a much talked about future "Queen of Sabar" and the city of Oakland can hardly wait to see her perform at the upcoming Sabar dance festival. But life has a way of dealing us cards that will test our very core and Aisha's cards were waiting in the wings.
Set against the backdrop of the African dance movement in the United States, Sabar is a dramatic feature film about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Sabar examines how we constantly negotiate and choreograph our way through the bigger dance called LIFE.
Genre: Narrative feature
Length: 103 minutes / color
Release Date: 2009
Director / Producer: Chike C. Nwoffiah
Starring: Bunmi DeRosario, Alassane Kane, Kenesha Mayfield, Curtis Campbell. Naomi Diouf, David Ali
Website: www.sabarthemovie.com
Email: chikecn@aol.com
Telephone: 209-598-2561