Film Screening - Through the Door of No Return

About the film

African American filmmaker Shirikiana Aina's personal confrontation of the slave trade.  By following her father's footsteps, she returns to Africa, at night, by the water, the way her ancestors left, back through the door of no return.

Shirikiana Aina is an award-winning independent filmmaker, film educator, and owner of Sankofa Video and Bookstore and cultural center in Washington, D.C. She was born and raised in Detroit where she was shaped by the political and cultural activism of the 1960s and 70s. She also credits this era with the definition and aura of Sankofa Bookstore, where black literature and arts flourish amidst community interaction.

Aina graduated from Howard University and UCLA, where she studied filmmaking and African area studies. She has taught film as a lecturer at Howard University. She produced and directed the documentaries Footprints of Pan Africanism, on the pan African experiment of the Nkrumah years; Through the…