Black International Cinema Berlin

A Complexion Change
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An International Media Project (UNESCO)

XXVIII. Black International Cinema Berlin
"Future Blossoms" / "Blüten der Zukunft"

May 8-12

"Footprints in the Sand?" Exhibition
"...Visions Become Reality..." / "...Visionen Werden Wirklichkeit..."

July 1-August 31

2013

Venue: Rathaus Schöneberg (city hall), John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin/Germany
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Saturday . May 11

Kinosaal/Cinema
8 pm / 20 Uhr

A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM GREAVES

THE FIRST WORLD FESTIVAL
OF NEGRO ARTS
Director: William Greaves
Documentary, B/W, 40 min.
USA 1967
English

 

"The First World Festival of Negro Arts." The official documentary film of the festival held in Dakar, Senegal in 1966. Over 2,000 writers, artists and performers from Africa and the African Diaspora participated in this historic event. Featuring Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Alvin Ailey, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Emperor Haile Selassie, Katherine Dunham and artists, performers and dignitaries from thirty countries. A Black history treasure produced, written and directed by William Greaves.

"The First World Festival of Negro Arts." Der offizielle Dokumentarfilm des Festivals, das in Dakar, Senegal, 1966 stattfand. Über 2.000 Schriftsteller, Künstler und Darsteller aus Afrika und der Afrikanischen Diaspora nahmen an diesem historischen Ereignis teil. Zu sehen sind Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Alvin Ailey, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Kaiser Haile Selassie, Katherine Dunham und Künstler, Darsteller und Würdenträger aus dreißig Ländern. Ein Schatz der Schwarzen Geschichte, produziert, geschrieben und unter der Regie von William Greaves.


Leopold Senghor

MOTTOES

"I may not make it if I try, but I damn sure won´t if I don´t..."
Oscar Brown Jr.

"Mankind will either find a way or make one."
C.P. Snow

"Whatever you do..., be cool!"
Joseph Louis Turner

"Yes, I can...!"
Sammy Davis Jr.

"Yes, We can...!"
Barack Obama

 

Prof.  Donald Muldrow Griffith

Embassy of the United States of America

Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung

 

euromight

wave magazine

united against racism

tulipphoto

African Women in Europe

 
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