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SouthSide Film Fest Runs Through June 18

African culture and the genre of folklore will be highlighted in eighth annual celebration of cinema.

This year’s SouthSide Film Festival features an African theme, with a generous helping of folklore. 

This is the eighth straight year that the independent, non-competitive, not-for-profit film festival will be held in Bethlehem. This year’s festival, organized by a group of local film lovers called the SouthSide Film Institute, began Tuesday and runs through June 18.

Each year, festival organizers choose one culture and one genre on which to focus. This year the culture is African, while the genre is folklore.

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From now through Saturday dozens of films---some shorts, some feature-length---will be shown at three sites: , Sinclair Lab Auditorium at , and Victory Firehouse.

Access the film schedule here.

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