Cross-Cultural Center Movie Night, “Amandla”

Wednesday 3/7: 5 pm, Cross Cultural Center

The power of song to communicate, motivate, console, unite and ultimately, beget change. That ideal, gloriously realized, lies at the heart of director Lee Hirsch’s inspiring feature film documentary, “Amandla.” The movie tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid.

The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized black South Africans for more than 40 years, Amandla’s focus is on the struggle’s spiritual dimension, as articulated and embodied in song. It is unlike any other film yet made on the subject of apartheid, and an electrically expressive portrait of South African life then and now.

Free.