Presented by Penn's Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies and Public Trust

1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a native Kalinago married to a French settler, leads Olaudah, a fleeing African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. The short film premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2022, where Anne-Sophie Nanki won the Grand Prize for Best Director.

Followed by a discussion with director Anne-Sophie Nanki.

Cosponsored by Penn's Departments of Cinema & Media Studies and History, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Center for Experimental Ethnography, and Wolf Humanities Center. 

Anne-Sophie Nanki is an Afro-Caribbean director and screenwriter from Guadeloupe, with a master's degree in theater and cinema from La Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She has co-written short films, series, and feature films, including Sextape which was an official selection at the Cannes International Film Festival 2018, and she worked with Raoul Peck on his docu-series Exterminate all the Brutes (HBO 2021).

In 2022, her directorial debut, the historical drama Here ends the World we've Known, explores the theme of Afro-Native solidarity against European invasions of the "New World" in the 16th century. The movie premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2022, where she won the Grand Prize for Best Director. Her next project is Here the New World Begins the feature film adaptation of her short. It has been selected by the Berlinale EFM Fiction Toolbox Program 2023.

Nanki's work focuses on underrepresented perspectives, including those of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, as well as her own as a Black woman writer born in a French colony.