# The African Desperate (2022) — on MUBI?

- **Director:** Martine Syms
- **Cast:** Diamond Stingily, Erin Leland, Cammisa Buerhaus, Aaron Bobrow, Ruby McCollister
- **Genres:** Drama, Comedy
- **Runtime:** 100 min
- **MUBI rating:** 7.3/10 (9572 ratings)

## Available on MUBI in
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- 🇮🇩 Indonesia — until October 20
- 🇮🇪 Ireland — until October 20
- 🇮🇳 India — until October 20
- 🇮🇹 Italy — until October 20
- 🇯🇵 Japan — until October 20
- 🇰🇷 South Korea — until October 20
- 🇲🇽 Mexico — until October 21
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia — until October 20
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands — until October 20
- 🇳🇴 Norway — until October 20
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand — until October 20
- 🇵🇪 Peru — until October 21
- 🇵🇱 Poland — until October 20
- 🇵🇹 Portugal — until October 20
- 🇷🇴 Romania — until October 20
- 🇸🇪 Sweden — until October 20
- 🇸🇬 Singapore — until October 20
- 🇹🇭 Thailand — until October 20
- 🇹🇷 Turkey — until October 20
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan — until October 20
- 🇺🇸 USA — until October 21
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay — until October 21
- 🇿🇦 South Africa — until October 20

## Synopsis
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Watch on MUBI: https://mubi.com/films/the-african-desperate

Page: https://mubimap.com/film/the-african-desperate/ · Data: MUBI catalog (42 countries) + TMDB · Updated 2026-09-10