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I Am Not Your Negro / Film at Manarat Al Saadiyat

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Manarat Al Saadiyat Auditorium

24 April

7.30pm – 9.30pm

Don’t miss the regional premiere of Raoul Peck’s I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO in the main auditorium of Manarat Al Saadiyat this Tuesday. Entrance is free of charge and first-come-first-seated.

“You’ll spend a kaleidoscopic and transporting 90 minutes living inside James Baldwin’s mind, coming thrillingly close to his existential perception of the hidden meaning of race in America.” – Variety

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Directed by: Raoul Peck
2016 | 93 | English | Switzerland | France | Belgium | USA | PG-13 | Documentary

In June 1979, renowned US writer James Baldwin began work on his last, unfinished text ‘Remember this House’. His personal memories of his three murdered civil rights friends Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King, and his reflections on his own painful experiences as a black American serve to re-write American history. Raoul Peck has turned these 30 hitherto unpublished pages into a powerful collage of archive photographs, excerpts from films and newsreel footage that depict: the boycotts and the resistance against racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, the invisibility of black Americans in Hollywood’s legendary works, the Afro-American protests against white police brutality that continue to take place even today, Baldwin’s complex relationship with the Black Power Movement and one FBI report’s paranoid view of Baldwin’s lifestyle. A trenchant and disturbing essay about the reality of the lives of African Americans – lives that are still largely ignored by America’s mainstream. Samuel L Jackson’s voice lends Baldwin’s poetic, meditative language suitable expression.

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