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Short Films by Nikyatu Jusu

Nikyatu Jusu Interview

5m 31s

This interview with director Nikyatu Jusu was recorded in 2022.

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    Directed by Nikyatu Jusu • 2007 • United States
    Starring Ebbe Bassey, Kadane Clark, Erik Gullberg

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    Directed by Nikyatu Jusu • 2010 • United States
    Starring Ebbe Bassey, Ellie Foumbi, Dennise Gregory

    Eight-year-old Hawa is reunited with her African refugee mother after six years apart—and now finds herself living with a woman in the midst of a deep mental-health crisis.

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    Flowers

    Flowers

    Directed by Nikyatu Jusu and Yvonne Michelle Shirley • 2015 • United States
    Starring Amee Apedo, Belle Le Grand, Grant Tambellini

    Two teenage girls in Brooklyn plot revenge against a teacher, only to see their calculated plan fall dangerously apart in this tense, complex examination of racial an...

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