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Scene from "Queen of Katwe."

How does a young girl from Uganda go from beginning chess player to champion? Disney’s Queen of Katwedocuments the journey from one to the other as well as the struggles and triumphs in between. The 2016 film was the first entry in this month’s​“Free Film Fridays: From Stage to Screen: Celebrating Black Yale School of Drama Alumni” at the Ives branch of the New Haven Free Public Library.

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