Nov. 18 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘BANEL AND ADAMA’

Screening November 18, 2024 at 3:30pm and 6:30pm

BANEL AND ADAMA

2024 Senegal 1hr 27 minutes 

Drama NR

In Pulaar with English subtitles

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists except each other. But for the rest of their tight-knit village, duty dictates that Adama soon accept the role of chief. The two lovers have their own plans… until something in the air changes. The rains do not come, the cattle begin to die, the men leave. The curse weighs on Adama’s sense of duty, and the chasm between them drives Banel into a feverish, mystical chaos.

A rare debut feature that premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and Senegal’s official submission to the 96th Academy Awards®, Banel & Adama is a lush and lyrical West African dreamscape, a tragic romance that soars to the heights of longing and descends deep into the realm of myth as it sets its protagonists’ perfect everlasting love on a collision course with their community’s traditions.

Screening December 2nd, 2024 at 3:30pm and 6:30pm TBA
Screening December 16th, 2024 at 3:30pm and 6:30pm TBA

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Our Film Series screens (usually) two films each month, on the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas in downtown Oxnard.

Plaza Cinemas 14
255 West 5th Street, Oxnard CA 93030
General Admission: $11.75 – Seniors/Children/Students: $8.50 – Matinee: $9.25

We will continue our mission of providing the best of world cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community and supporting local filmmakers.

We’d like to thank the Port of Hueneme for becoming a 2023-24 Annual Sponsor of the Oxnard Film Society.