
1989
As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. The film combines beautifully intimate still and moving images of the woman’s body and home space, along with playful stop-motion sequences. —Jacqueline Stewart, UCLA Film and Television Archive

Stephanie Ingram
Rasheeda Allen

Zeinabu irene Davis
Dream character

Marc Arthur Chéry

Doris Owanda Johnson

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

Frozen River

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Frisky

Ma fille est innocente

Awakened

The Tied Up Balloon

Playground

Dazlak – Skinhead

You Are So Beautiful

Possible Lives

The Outrun

Afterparty

Mansfield Park

Fraulein

The Year of Spectacular Men

Peasants

Hanging Up

Against Their Will

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage