Film
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FROM THE CONTINENT The 14th annual African Diaspora Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of Norman Maake’s “Homecoming” (2005), a South African film about three veterans of the African National Congress who return to their country after exile in 1996. Friday, 8:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $30.
THROUGH FRENCH EYES The first complete American retrospective of works by the French director Jacques Rivette features a weekend screening of “La Belle Noiseuse” (1991), about what happens after a new muse enters the life of a reclusive painter. The film stars Michel Piccoli and Emmanuelle Béart. Saturday and Sunday, Saturday, 2 p.m., Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 3601 35th Ave. at 36th Street, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors, $5 children, members free.
CHARISMATIC CANTOR Makor presents a screening of Eric Greenberg’s “A Cantor’s Tale” (2004), a documentary about a cantor devoted to preserving Jewish liturgical music, Jack Mendelson. Saturday, 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, Makor, Steinhardt Building, 35 W. 67th St., between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, 212-601-1000, $9.
GOOD-BYE, ROBERT The Film Society of Lincoln Theater presents a tribute to the late director Robert Altman with a screening of his “A Prairie Home Companion” (2006), based on the traveling radio show. The movie is introduced by the society’s associate director of programming, Kent Jones. Monday,8 p.m.,Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th St., between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, 212-875-5600, $10 general, $7 students, $6 members.