A Dry White Season

Black History, Chicago International Film Festival, International Films, Interviews

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Oscar winning filmmaker Euzhan Palcy on her film “Sugar Cane Alley”

by Rebecca Martin

October 24, 2025

Set against the vivid backdrop of 1931 French-colonized Martinique, “Sugar Cane Alley” (“Rue Cases-Nègres”) stands as one of cinema’s most tender and politically charged coming-of-age stories. The film follows eleven-year-old

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