SU16: MN Premiere of “Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai (Rain The Color of Blue With a Little Red In It)

Sunday, November 15

6PM ✖ Hall ✖ $10 ADV/$12 DOS ✖ AA

Purchase your tickets in advance!

Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to “Purple Rain” and “The Harder They Come.” Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for “purple,” hence the title). Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout. (Synopsis provided by CIMM FEST.)

DIR: Christopher Kirkley, Niger. In Tamashek w/English subtitles, 2015, 75 min.

11/15/15