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In this poetic and provocative docufiction, a young Nigerian man settles in the Bay Area in the late 1960s. The result is an incisive portrait of Black diasporic identity amidst a fraught American society. An important but rarely screened gem of independent cinema, David Schickele's film is presented in a new restoration by BAMPFA and The Film Foundation.

Bushman is a 1971 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 14 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.6.