The international literature festival berlin (ilb) calls on cinemas, schools, universities, television stations, the media, cultural institutions and individuals for a worldwide screening of I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck on 10 December 2020, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the United Nations in 1948. The film illuminates the continuity of racism and documents the resistance against it, which is also articulated in art. The worldwide screening of Raoul Peck’s film is also intended to emphasize our responsibility to process the history of colonization and racism in detail. 400 years after the first slaves were brought ashore in chains in Jamestown, Virginia, the equal treatment of whites and People of Color is by no means established. Over nearly four centuries, an estimated 10-12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas, mainly by European traders. More than 250 years after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, the equal treatment of whites and People of Color is by no means established – neither in the Americas nor in Europe nor in other regions on the globe.
CALL
The international literature festival berlin (ilb) calls on cinemas, schools, universities, television stations, the media, cultural institutions and individuals for a worldwide screening of I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck on 10 December 2020, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the United Nations in 1948. The film illuminates the continuity of racism and documents the resistance against it, which is also articulated in art. The worldwide screening of Raoul Peck’s film is also intended to emphasize our responsibility to process the history of colonization and racism in detail. 400 years after the first slaves were brought ashore in chains in Jamestown, Virginia, the equal treatment of whites and People of Color is by no means established. Over nearly four centuries, an estimated 10-12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas, mainly by European traders. More than 250 years after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, the equal treatment of whites and People of Color is by no means established – neither in the Americas nor in Europe nor in other regions on the globe.
I Am Not Your Negro: This is an award-winning 95-minute documentary film from 2016, which was shot on the basis of the unfinished novel manuscript “Remember This House” by James Baldwin (1924 – 1987). In the film, Peck attempts to capture the racism of US society in a chronological panorama from 1890 to 2014 by means of cinematic collage and the life story of three friends of Baldwin from the civil rights movement who were murdered in the 1960s: human rights lawyer Medgar Evers (+1963), Black Muslim Malcolm X (+1965) and Baptist pastor and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
James Baldwin (*1924 in Harlem, New York City – 1987+ Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France) was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Books like “The Fire Next Time” (1962) deal with racism and sexuality. Raoul Peck (*1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a filmmaker and screenwriter who became internationally known through the documentary (1990) “Lumumba: La mort du Prophète” (1992) and the feature film “Lumumba” (2001), among others.
With the Worldwide Screening, the ilb ties in with the series of Worldwide Readings that it has held since 2006 on various topics, primarily related to human rights, and with the first Worldwide Screening on 27 January 2020, which launched the presentation of “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann in over 20 countries.
We call for participation in the worldwide screening of I Am Not Your Negro. This can be done privately in a small circle, in a school, in a cinema or by a TV station. We hope that cinemas worldwide will have recovered from the current situation due to COVID-19 by December and can participate in the call.
The film I Am Not Your Negro is available in spoken language in English, French and German and with subtitles in English, Spanish, French and German also as DVD or BluRay in bookstores. The screening rights must be clarified individually with the distributor – we will be happy to provide information about the distributors.
Institutions and persons who would like to participate with a screening on December 10, 2020 are asked to send us the following information by November 12, 2020: organizers, venue, time, participating actors, language of the event, link to our website if applicable. The e-mail address is: worldwidescreening@literaturfestival.com. The ilb will announce the events
SIGNATORIES
Algeria Habib Tengour I Mohamed Magani Argentina Eduardo Sguiglia I Patricio Pron Australia Christine McKenzie I Gail Jones I John Mateer I Mark Isaacs Bahrain Fareed Ramadan Belgium Philippe de Pierpont Bolivia Biyú Suárez de Jaldín Brazil Angélica Freitas I Djamila Ribeiro I Márcia Tiburi I Pieta Poeta I Rafael Cardoso Canada Brian Brett I John Ralston Saul I Michael Ondaatje Chile Ariel Dorfman I Carmen Berenguer I Jorge Ragal China Xiaolu Guo France Leonardo Tonus I Shumona Sinha I Yahia Belaskri Germany Alban Nikolai Herbst I Anja Tuckermann I Caroline Rosales I Knut Boeser I Lukas Jüliger I Matteo Pasquinelli I Matthias Penzel I Maxi Obexer I Mina Braun I Nora Bossong I Regula Venske I Reinhard Kleist I Stefan Weidner Ghana Frankie Asare-Donkoh Greece Yiorgos Chouliaras Guatemala Rodrigo Rey-Rosa India Damodar Mauzo I Irfan Habib Iran Lila Azam Zanganeh I Negin Ehtesbian Italy Antonio Della Rocca I Ilaria Gaspari Japan Tajima Shinji Kenia Mukoma Wa Ngugi Morocco Abdelmajid Benjelloun Mozambique Tânia Tomé Myanmar Ma Thida I Ko Ko Thett Norway Linde Hagerup I Sissel Horndal I Tom Egeland Pakistan HM Naqvi Philippines Grace Monte de Ramos Poland Jacek Dehnel Portugal Ana Luísa Amaral I Catarina Sobral I Paulo Teixeira Romania Magda Carneci Russia Alissa Arkadjewna Ganijewa I Viacheslav Kuprianov Slovenia Stanka Hrastelj South Africa Hennie van Vuuren South Korea Moon Chung-hee Spain Anna Aguilar-Amat Sweden Ghayath Almadhoun Switzerland Peter Stamm I Raphael Urweider I Urs Jaeggi The Netherlands Anneke Brassinga I Enne Koens I Quito Nicolaas I Thé Tjong-Khing Turkey Ece Temelkuran I Hatice Akyün I Rezan Aksoy I Tarik Günersel UK Alex Wheatle I Dan Hicks I Mbali Matandela I Murat Suner I Selma Dabbagh I Soma Gosh USA Abraham Zere IAlexandra Kleeman IDipesh Chakrabarty I Forrest Gander IJoeAnn Hart I Maaza Mengiste I Patrick Lichty I Tope Folarin I Viken Berberian Venezuela Alberto Barrera Tyszka Vietnam Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Wales Iain Finlayson I Owen Sheers
PARTICIPANTS
Argentina
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Santiago de Chile in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Chile and Museo de Derechos Humanos y Memoria in Santiago de Chile
Online, Discount Code: DERECHOSHUMANOS
Time: anytime on December 10th and 11th, 2020
Language: English with Spanish subtitles
Belarus
WATCH DOCS Belarus Human Rights Film Festival in association with Belarusian PEN and Amerykanka Book Series
Event location: Korpus Culture Center (Mašerava 9/8, Minsk, Belarus)
Time: 7 pm FET
Language: English with Belarusian subtitles (translation by Paval Kasciukievič)
Participants: The discussion will be held after the screening with participation of Belarusian and (distantly) American speakers
Belgium
ESA Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai
Event location: Rue de l’Hôpital Notre Dame 14, 7500 Tournai, Belgium
Time: during classes all the week of 10/12
Language: French
Participants: ca. 190 students
>This is an educational event and is non-public.<
ESA Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles
Event location: Place Louis Morichar 30, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Time: during classes all the week of 10/12
Language: French
Participants: ca. 190 students
>This is an educational event and is non-public.<
Bolivia
PEN SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA & Sociedad Cruceña de Escritores “Germán Coímbra” BOLIVIA
Online and public Q&A via Facebook
Time: 8 pm BOT
Language: English with Spanish subtitles
Program:
- Greetings from the president of PENSCZ Sarita Mansilla
- Presentation and welcome message of Ulrich Schreiber as director of international literature festival berlin
- Introduction to the film “I’m not your Negro”
- Film screening
- Forum debate run by: Napoleón Ardaya, Ciro Añez, Biyú Suárez and Sarita Mansilla
- Questions and answers from people who participate through the PENSCZ Fanpage.
- Closing
Brazil
Goethe-Institut São Paulo in cooperation at Sesc Digital
Online discussion and screening
Time: 4 pm BRT (discussion), 5 pm BRT (screening)
Language: Portuguese
Participants: Before the film there will be a talk about the film with Fernanda Lomba and Lorenna Rocha
Lorenna Rocha is a graduate in History (UFPE) and cultural critic. Researcher on Brazilian black dramaturgies, she is part of the editorial curatorship and critical body of Quarta Parede magazine (PE). He also acts as a film critic on the blog Sessão Aberta (SP).
Participated in the XI Jury Critical Window (2018), Talent Press Rio (2019) and the Laboratory of Criticism – Practices of The Look (2020). It has texts published in The Question of Criticism (BRA), Contemporary & Latin America (BRA), Buala (POR) and in the catalog of the 22nd FestCurtas BH (2020). Since 2019, he has been teaching workshops for theatrical criticism with Rodrigo Dourado (UFPE/Teatro de Fronteira).
Fernanda Lomba is executive producer for fiction projects and films and documentaries. Winner of the scholarship for black executive producer at the American Film Market, promoted by Spcine and LATC, in November 2019. Invited to the MIPTV market environment in Cannes, held in 2019. She signs as executive producer the documentary feature films: Fabiana (2018), by Brunna Laboissiere and Jair Rodrigues – Let them Say(2020), by Rubens Rewald. In fiction he made production assistance for the feature film Cidade Pássaro (2020), by Matias Mariani, which premiered in the show Panorama da Berlinale/2020); executive production in the short films Mãe não chora (2019), by Carol Rodrigues and Vaneza Oliveira and BORDER, by Raul Perez, awarded with the notice of English Culture.
With projects and films, he participated in different international market events, such as: MIPTV in Cannes (Feb/19); American Film Market in Los Angeles (Nov/19) European Film Market in Berlin (Feb/20).
In the last three years, she has also worked as a project consultant, teaches workshops, mediation of meetings and composition of project evaluation bank. She is co-founder at NICHO 54. By NICHO 54, she was invited by the Cabíria Festival, held in 2019, to the Meeting of Affirmative Actions table, and also by the Market Environment of the Brasilia festival to teach the open class in November 2019; and invited to follow the Diversity and Inclusion program at 70. Berlinale in February 2020.
Debora Pill is a journalist and Cultural Programming Coordinator at the Goethe-Institut São Paulo
(Mediator)
Bulgaria
Friedich-Ebert-Stiftung Bulgaria
Time: 8 pm EET
Language: English with Bulgarian subtitles
Canada
Goethe-Institut Toronto in cooperation with POV Magazine, Hot Docs & the Toronto Black Film Festival, together with the Goethe-Institute in the US and Mexico
Online screening, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 6-8 pm EST
Language: English
Chile
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Santiago de Chile in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Chile and Museo de Derechos Humanos y Memoria in Santiago de Chile
Time: anytime on December 10th and 11th, 2020
Language: English with Spanish subtitles
Denmark
Danish PEN in cooperation with Grand Teatret
Event location:Grand Teatret, Mikkel Bryggers Gade 8, København K
Time: 16.40 pm CET
Participants: Introduction by Rune Lykkeberg, chief editor of Dagbladet Information
Germany
Dathe-Gymnasium Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Event location: Helsingforser Str. 11-13, 10243 Berlin
Time: 3.30 pm CET
Language: English
Participants: Students
>This is an educational event and is non-public.<
Interkulturkino & Interkulturanstalten Westend e.V.
Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Event location: Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Time: 12 pm CET
Language: German/ Spanish
Participants: Students of the lecture “Terms and Contexts of Latin American Studies” within the framework of the Master’s programme Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies
>This is an educational event and is non-public.<
Moabiter Wanderkino in cooperation with Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung Moabit
Online screening & discussion: Registration at info@kinofuermoabit.de
Time: 7.30 pm CET
Language: German
Participants: Prof. Martin Klepper (HU Berlin, Institut für Literatur und Kultur Nordamerikas), Moderation: Dagmar Kamlah (Filmemacherin, Kuratorin)
Impact Hub Berlin, Gender Equity & Social Justice Tribe
Online screening and discussion
Time: 6.30 – 9.00 pm CET
Language/Discussion: English with English subtitles during the documentary
Participants: Donte Curtis, Lead Consultant at Catch your Dreams Consulting, Flavia Ladino Gender Equity & Social Justice Tribe Lead
Intellectures
Time: 8 – 10 pm CET
Johann-Gottfried-Herder Gymnasium, Berlin-Lichtenberg
>This is an educational event and is non-public.<
HSG Bochum, Schauspielhaus Bochum, IfaK e.V.
Event location: Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Königsallee 15, 44789 Bochum
This event is postponed to 2021.
Language/ film: English, French and German with German subtitles
Language/ discussion: German
Participants: Dr. Christiane Falge (Professor for Health and Diversity, HSG Bochum), Jasmin Giama-Gerdes (Intercultural Trainer and Trainer for Social Justice, Ifak e. V.), Gina Haller (Schauspielhaus Bochum), Mercy Dorcas Otieno (Schauspielhaus Bochum); Moderation: Dr. Silke Betscher (Deputy Professor, HSG Bochum)
Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen & the research initiative Worlds of Contradiction
>This event is non-public.<
Gedenk- und Dokumentationsstelle für die Opfer politischer Gewalt
Event location: Volkshochschule, Gartenstr. 01, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Time: 6 pm CET
Language: German
Ladenatelier FRITZEN
Event location: Wohlwillstraße 20, 20359 Hamburg
Time: 8 pm CET
Language: English with German subtitles
Kulturzentrum Kreuz e.V. in cooperation together with Filmbühne Fulda, KUZ Kreuz
Event location: KUZ Kreuz, Schlitzerstraße 81, Horas
This event is postponed.
Language: German
This event will take place on December 8th, 2020.
Werkraum Schöpflin
Event location: Werkraum Schöpflin, Franz-Ehret-Straße 7, 79641 Lörrach
The event is postponed to 2021
Language: German
Project “Mindful Leadership” and AG “Anti-Racism at the University”, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück
Time: 6 pm CET
Language: German
Participants: Christiane Leiste, Abigail M. Joseph-Magwood, Alina Schmeing
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Event location: Solitude 3, 70197 Stuttgart
Time: 11 am CET
Language: English
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Politisches Bildungsforum Baden-Württemberg
Time: 6 pm CET
Language: German
Participants: Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder, University of Tübingen, and Dr. Sylvie Nantcha, African Network of Germany
Program:
- 6 pm Begrüßung
Nina Zimmer, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung - 6.10 pm Introduction: Die Bürgerrechtsbewegung bis hin zu den Black Lives Matter Protesten
Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder, Universität Tübingen - 6.40 pm Fragen und Diskussion: Black Lives Matter Bewegung in den USA und in Deutschland
Dr. Sylvie Nantcha, The African Network for Germany
Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder, Universität Tübingen
Moderation: Nina Zimmer, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung - ca. 7.30 pm Ende der Veranstaltung
HuMBase / Sophia Sadzakov, HuM-Collective
Event location: HuMBase, Eckartshaldenweg 7, 70191 Stuttgart
Time: 7 pm CET
Language: English with German subtitles
Participants: HuMBase & Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media
Website HuMBase / Website Filmwinter
Ghana
Goethe-Institut Ghana
Event location: Goethe-Institut Ghana premises in East Cantonments, Accra
Time: 6.30 pm GMT
Language: English
Participants: Film directors, students, actors and actresses
Greece
DØCUMATISM with the support of the Greek Film Archive and HumanRights360
Online screening and discussion
Time: open for 24 hours, starting at 12 am OET (screening), 7 pm OET (start of the ” I Am Not Your Negro & the AfroGreeks” – online discussion)
Language: English with Greek subtitles (screening), Greek (discussion)
Panelists:
- Grace Nwoke – Postgraduate student in Social Anthropology
- Michael Afolayan – Musician, Actor, Activist
- Tosin – Musician
- Helene Nzanga – Actress
- Samuel Akinola – Actor
- Alassane Keita – Interpreter
- Joshua Edoze – High school student, Football player
- Zeraw – Artist
- John Mykel Ergar – Dancer
Ireland
Alliance Française
Time: 6 pm IST
Language: English
Mauritania
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Project PDDH: Promoting human rights and strengthening human rights dialogue
Event location: Espace Culturel Camara, Nouakchott
This event is postponed.
Language: French
Mexico
Goethe-Institut Mexico together with the Goethe-Institute in the US and Canada
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 6-8 pm EST
Language: English
Namibia
Goethe-Institut Namibia
Event location: 1–5 Fidel Castro Street, P.O.B. 12 08, Windhoek
Time: 7 pm CAT
Language: English
Paraguay
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Santiago de Chile in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Chile and Museo de Derechos Humanos y Memoria in Santiago de Chile
Online, Discount Code: DERECHOSHUMANOS
Time: anytime on December 10th and 11th, 2020
Language: English with Spanish subtitles
Turkey
Mahalla Festival Istanbul
Time: unlimited
United Kingdom
Goethe-Institut London
Online & analogue: Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate / Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
Time: 7.30 pm GMT
Language: English
Uruguay
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Santiago de Chile in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Chile, Museo de Derechos Humanos y Memoria in Santiago de Chile and Goethe-Institut Uruguay
Online, Discount Code: DERECHOSHUMANOS
Time: anytime on December 10th and 11th, 2020
Language: English with Spanish subtitles
USA
Goethe-Institut Chicago together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 5 pm CST
Language: Englisch
Goethe Pop Up Houston together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 5 pm CST
Language: Englisch
Goethe Pop Up Kansas City together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 5 pm CST
Language: Englisch
Goethe-Institut New York & the German Film Office New York together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 6 pm EST
Language: Englisch
Goethe-Institut San Francisco together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 6 pm EST
Language: Englisch
Goethe Pup Up Seattle together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 3 pm PST
Language: Englisch
Goethe-Institut Washington together with Goethe-Institut Canada and Mexico
Online, accompanied by a twitter takeover by Prof. Vershawn Young (Dr. Vay) from the University of Waterloo
Time: 6 pm EST
Language: Englisch
Massachusetts Association of Consulting Planners
Time: 6.30 pm GMT
Language: English
Participants: David Lee, FAIA, Ted Landsmark, D. Quintin Miller, Daphne Politis, AICP
Program:
- Networking starts 6.30 pm: Online access will be provided to registrants
- Movie Screening 7 pm: Link access will be provided to registrants
- Discussion 8.30 pm: Same access for Networking hour