Starring: Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Denzel Washington

Join The FOFIF on election night to wait out the results together by enjoying the second feature film by Mira Nair (mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s mother), MISSISSIPPI MASALA. Wear your “I Voted” sticker and get a drink discount too! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with big-hearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and radical celebration of love’s power to break down the barriers between us.

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