Join us on Friday 7 November at 4 p.m. in ICTP’s Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo building for the free public screening of the award-winning documentary “Brief Tender Light,” followed by a Q&A session with the film director, Arthur Musah, moderated by ICTP research scientist Ali Hassanali.

Brief Tender Light follows four African MIT students over a decade-long journey from the moment when they leave their respective countries for the United States, and as they are forced to decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves.

Arthur Musah was born in Ukraine and raised in Ghana, where he attended the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School in Legon, Accra. Having graduated from MIT as an engineer in 2004, he returned as a filmmaker to create Brief Tender Light out of a need to explore the transformative experience of studying abroad, which among other things allowed him to come out as a gay man.

The event is free and everyone is welcome. Registration is required at this link.

More information about the documentary can be found on the ICTP website.