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Page 16 BLACK HISTORY MONTH February 22, 2017 Arts & ENTERTAINMENT Happy Birthday, Chylli; From Raw, Nykki & Lamar. We Love You! Happy Birthday Dad! We Love and Appreciate You! Wishing you many more! U R Blessed. A young woman walks into the afterlife in ‘Kati Kati,’ a remarkable first feature by director Mbithi Masya of Kenya, playing again Wednesday, Feb. 22 at the Portland International Film Festival. International Films to Enjoy in Final Days o PinionAted J udge by d arleen o rtega Showdogs is a full service salon. We do baths, all over hair cuts, tooth brushing, nail trims, soft claws, flea treatments, mud baths, and ear clean- ing. We also have health care and grooming prod- ucts to keep your pet clean in between visits. Show Dogs Grooming Salon & Boutique 926 N. Lombard Portland, OR 97217 503-283-1177 Tuesday-Saturday 9am-7pm Monday 10am-4pm Yo dawg is gonna look like a show dawg and your kitty will be pretty. Avalon Flowers 520 SW 3rd Ave., Portland, OR 97204 • 503-796-9250 A full service flower experience Cori Stewart-- Owner, Operator • Birthdays • Anniversaries • Funerals • Weddings Open: Mon.-Fri. 7:30am til 5:30pm Saturday 9am til 2pm. Website: avalonflowerspdx.com email: avalonflowers@msn.com We Offer Wire Services As the Portland International Film Festival draws to a close, it looks like I will catch at least 40 screenings. Here are five films that are among those you can see in the final days of PIFF: “Kati Kati,” a Kenyan/Ger- man production set in the after- life, is one of the most intriguing films I’ve seen at PIFF this year. It opens with a young woman wan- dering in the Kenyan grasslands. She walks onto the grounds of a resort with about 20 other young Kenyans, and one of them informs her that she has arrived at Kati Kati, and she is there because she (like the other residents) is dead. Her predictable attempt to run re- veals that isn’t an option. Appar- ently unlike the rest, the young Photo Courtesy Z eitgeist F ilMs Chen Gang is taxi driver Lao Shi in ‘Old Stone,’ a gritty, realistic style film presenting a grim view of modern-day China. woman, Kaleche, has no idea of answers that satisfy. It’s a smart her own history or life, and her choice for the filmmaker, who questions frequently don’t elicit keeps us in a state of emerging consciousness that helps us empa- thize with these souls, who need to make a transition but fight to understand what and how. Their world contains enough details to feel real, but the director still leaves a lot unanswered, so that we, like Kaleche, are left to strug- gle to find what progress from this place requires and will mean. It’s a remarkable first feature for direc- tor Mbithi Masya, and plays again on Wednesday, Feb. 22. “Maliglutit” seeks to be a western, but one faithful to the life of Inuit people. Inspired by the classic John Ford film, “The Searchers,” it immerses the audi- C ontinued on P age 23