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PANORAMA Dokumente

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

A film by Raoul Peck

 DCP / HD - FRANCE / BELGIUM / SWITZERLAND – 2016 - 93 min

Directed by: Raoul Peck

 Produced by: Velvet Film, Artémis Productions, Close up Films, ARTE France, ITVS Independent Lens, RTS, RTBF, Shelter Prod

Original language: English

With the voice of Samuel L. Jackson

 Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through both personal appearances and the text of his final unfinished book project, Director Raoul Peck's I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO touches on the tragic deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers to bring powerful clarity to how the image (and reality) of Blacks in America today is fabricated and enforced.

AWARDS

Audience Awards for Best Documentary

Toronto International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

Hamptons Film Festival

Best Documentary/Non Fiction Awards

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Southeastern Film Critics Association

Best Documentary Feature Award

Philadelphia Film Festival

Best Writing

IDA Creative Recognition Award

NOMINATIONS

 NAACP Image Award (Ceremony on Feb. 11)

Outstanding Documentary Film

Academy Award 2017 (Ceremony on Feb. 26)

Best Documentary Feature

REVIEWS

« One of the best movies you are likely to see this year » 

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

« Uneasy but unforgettable viewing » 

Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

« Transcendent. A meditation on the prophetic brilliance of James Baldwin » 

Owen Gleiberman, Variety

http://bit.ly/2dImwhh

« A cinematic séance and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made » 

The Guardian

http://bit.ly/2ecXPV4

« Not only an urgent call to action, but also one of the very best films of the year »

The Daily Beast

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EFM Screenings

February 10th - 4:30PM - EFM Cinemobile

Press & Industry Screening

OFFICIAL SELECTION

FORUM

FOR AHKEEM

A film by Jeremy S. Levine & Landon Van Soest

 DCP / HD - USA – 2017 - 90 min

Directed by: Jeremy S. Levine & Landon Van Soest

Produced by: Weissman Studio, Transient Pictures, ITVS

Original language: English

“There are so many bigger and better things out there, you wouldn’t even believe it.”

 After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood.

Focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road.

Through Daje’s intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.

 NOMINATION

Berlin Forum 2017 - Glashütte Original Documentary Award

About the filmmakers

Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest are an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaking team. Their latest feature documentary, Good Fortune, about two Kenyans battling major foreign aid efforts that bring them more harm than benefit, was broadcast to millions of viewers in prime time on the PBS series POV. Good Fortune received a National Emmy Award in addition to awards for international reporting and promoting social justice from the Overseas Press Club, Fledgling Fund, and Witness.

Their previous documentary, Walking the Line, about vigilantes on the U.S.-Mexico border, was broadcast nationally in five countries and recognized with awards for production, reporting, and preserving human rights. 

In 2014, Levine directed/co-produced “Am I Next,” a short film about a teenager navigating the protests on the streets of Ferguson for Time. The short was also featured on Upworthy and Dazed Magazine and selected as a Vimeo Staff pick, with over 500K combined views.

Van Soest is also currently directing Light Darkness Light, a feature documentary that tracks the life-altering experience of a man who receives a bionic eye and learns to see again after thirty years of blindness. 

Landon and Jeremy co-founded Transient Pictures, a full service production company that produces original content for organizations like Facebook, Unicef, Ben & Jerry’s, Toyota, and Lincoln Center. The team also co-founded the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, a not-for-profit group of professional filmmakers who come together weekly for feedback and support.

EFM Screenings

February 10th - 4PM - CinemaxX 6 

Press & Industry Screening

THE GERMAN NEIGHBOUR

a film by Rosario Cervio & Martin Liji

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DCP - HD – Argentina - 2017 - 94 min

Directed by: Rosario Cervio & Martin Liji

Written by: Rosario Cervio

Produced by: Nana Ciné

Languages: Spanish, German, English

Languages:

“Long live Germany! Long live Austria! Long live Argentina! These are the countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.”

Last words of Adolf Eichmann, 
Thursday evening on May 31st, 1962, Ramla prison

In 1960, Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Buenos Aires and taken illegally to Jerusalem for a trial.

A pure documentary integrating archive materials, the film shows, through the eyes and research work of Renate, a young journalist, the awkward life of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina contrasting with the crimes he is defending against in Israel.

EFM Screenings

February 10th - 7:10PM - CinemaxX 2

Press & Industry Screening