The African Desperate

Drama • Unrated • Directed by: Martine Syms • 100 minutes

The feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms, this electrifying film tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant: a newly minted MFA grad whose final 24 hours in art school become a real trip. She is not going to the fucking graduation party! If this were a reality show, Palace would be the person who was not here to make friends. She needs to get home, back to Chicago from upstate New York. But that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory night-long odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.