Bushman [4K Restoration] (12A)
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It’s 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy have recently been assassinated, and Nigeria is entering its second year of a brutal civil war.
Gabriel (Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam), a Nigerian teacher who has fled his country, is riding the waves of the counterculture movement in San Francisco with candour, humour, and style, despite the ongoing racism he experiences.
In this beautifully restored and recently rediscovered film, truth becomes stranger than fiction when a scripted element of the story materializes in real life in an even darker way than director David Schickele originally imagined. A Peace Corps visit to Nigeria years earlier by Schickele led to a friendship with Okpokam and a unique and imaginative work of docufiction that infuses the energy, music, and momentum of the ’60s from a satiric, African perspective.
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