Commencing Friday night, the French Film Festival opens with a French Mini market at 6pm and the film screening at 7pm.

In its place we will be screening ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’ which was scheduled to be shown on the 3 June. We anticipate screening ‘Félicité’ on the 3 June.

I am Not Your Negro (2016 USA)

May 27, 2018
7:30 pm

Director: Raoul Peck
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte
Genre: Documentary
Minutes: 93 mins

Though its principal figure, the novelist, playwright and essayist James Baldwin, is a man who has been dead for nearly 30 years, it would be hard to find a movie that speaks to the present moment with greater clarity and force, insisting on uncomfortable truths and drawing stark lessons from the shadows of history. To call it a movie about James Baldwin would be to understate Raoul Peck’s achievement. It’s more of a posthumous collaboration, an uncanny and thrilling communion between the filmmaker and his subject. The voice-over narration (read by Samuel L. Jackson) is entirely drawn from Baldwin’s work. Much of it comes from notes and letters written in the mid-1970s, when Baldwin was somewhat reluctantly sketching out a book, never to be completed, about the lives and deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.