The Inheritance

In-person: director Ephraim Asili.

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Kindah

Jamaica/U.S, 2016

Shot in Hudson, New York, and Accompong, Jamaica, Kindah traces ancestral threads across the African diaspora, weaving a meditation on kinship, autonomy and return. Centered on the Kindah Tree — a living symbol of community among Jamaica’s Maroons — Ephraim Asili explores how land, memory and resistance shape evolving definitions of home. Blurring borders between past and present, North and South, Kindah offers a lyrical reflection on displacement, rootedness and the spiritual geography of diasporic belonging.

DCP, b&w and color, 12 min. Director: Ephraim Asili.

The Inheritance

U.S., 2020

After nearly a decade exploring the African diaspora, Ephraim Asili makes his feature debut with this vibrant ensemble film, set almost entirely in a West Philadelphia rowhome where young Black artists and activists form a collective. “‘The Inheritance’ feels like poetry visualized,” writes Lovia Gyarkye in The New York Times. Blending scripted drama with documentary reflection on the 1985 MOVE bombing, the film reimagines home as a political and spiritual inheritance.

DCP, color, 100 min. Director/Screenwriter: Ephraim Asili. With: Nozipho McClean, Eric Lockley, Chris Jarell, Julian Rozzell Jr., Debbie Africa.

—Public Programmer Beandrea July