Cane River

This is a FREE screening with a limited number of complimentary tickets. Please RSVP via our virtual-cinema-order-form; you will then be emailed a unique screening link for the film that will be active from Nov 6–12.

Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, Cane River is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area. This lyrical, visionary film disappeared for decades after Jenkins died suddenly following the film’s completion, robbing generations of a talented, vibrant new voice in African American cinema. Available now for the first time in forty years.

“In its modest, forthright warmth, Cane River is a work of visionary artistry and progressive imagination.” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker)

“…a romance shadowed by the complexities of history, race and politics that manages to be both modest and ambitious.” (A.O. Scott, NY Times) 

website: caneriver.oscilloscope.net