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Afronta!
A série AFRONTA! é dirigida pela cineasta negra Juliana Vicente e lança luz sobre a potente juventude negra brasileira contemporânea que contam suas trajetórias e oportunidades geradoras da sua constituição como indivíduo e expressadas pelos seus trabalhos. Em 26 episódios documentais de 15 minutos, grandes nomes contemporâneos refletem sobre o AFROFUTURISMO, como movimento estético e filosófico, sobre os encontros afrodiaspóricos e a criação desta rede como geradora de autonomia e potência. Realizado em diversos pontos do país como Recife, Bahia, São Paulo, Minas e Rio de Janeiro, Afronta! apresenta nomes como Rincon Sapiência, cantor de rap, Grace Passô, atriz e dramaturga premiada e Ingrid Silva, bailarina do Dance Theater of Harlem, NY. (Film's Official Website) -
Los hijos de Baraguá
"La producción de Rolando es un documental etnográfico e histórico sobre la comunidad de Baraguá, un enclave cañero de inmigrantes antillanos en el cual aún sobreviven los descendientes de estos trabajadores. De esta producción, emergen dos impresiones fundamentales: su carácter y potencial didáctico y, a su vez, la incertidumbre ante la visión y el recuento histórico que nos presenta. Con respecto a lo primero, el documental nos lleva al complejo mundo de principios del siglo veinte, cuando inmigrantes caribeños provenientes de las antillas coloniales británicas viajaron a Cuba para trabajar en la industria azucarera El carácter etnográfico y audiovisual del trabajo de Rolando brinda elementos y sensibilidades de una historia que difícilmente pueden ser encontrados y documentados en la literatura antropológica, histórica y sociológica de la inmigración antillana. Por otro lado, con relación al recuento histórico presentado, el producto final del documental nos deja con cierto número de interrogates y presunciones - ciertas y no tan ciertas - sobre lo que fue la experiencia de los inmigrantes anglo-antillanos en Cuba y lo que fue su experiencia en el caso particular de Baraguá." (Giovannetti, Jorge L. "Historia visual y etnohistoria en Cuba: Inmigración antillana e identidad en 'Los Hijos de Baraguá.'" Caribbean Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2002, pp. 216–52. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25613376. Accessed 27 May 2022.)
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Aruanda
The film describes the miserable lives of the descendants of the slaves, who founded a "quilombo." The men plant cotton in the dry ground. The women work in crafts in an economic cycle that does not bring in cash. The poverty of the film-making is an expression of the miserable conditions that are not present only in the reality that is represented in the film, but contaminates the very material nature of the film (Torino Film Festival). -
Andwele / Zumbi
Andwele y Zumbi, dos hermanos de raza negra, comparten un íntimo secreto de su infancia. (Sistema de Información Cultural México) -
Miss Panama
In 1980, Gloria Karamañites became the first Black finalist in the Miss Panama pageant. On the verge of winning the crown, pageant officials orchestrated a last minute maneuver to obstruct her path to victory, demanding that she answer an obscure legal question. MISS PANAMA is a short documentary exploring Gloria’s experiences navigating racism, the actions taken by Panama’s Afro-descendant community to rally around their Queen, and the ripple effects of U.S. imperialism. Interweaving archival, interviews and stylized imagery, the film asks Who is allowed to represent a nation? (Director's Website) -
Angélica
ANGÉLICA, tras una larga ausencia en Nueva York, regresa a Puerto Rico cuando su padre, WILFREDO, sufre un ataque cardíaco. La violencia de regresar, no por gusto, a la casa en la que creció, más la enfermedad de su padre, obligan a Angélica a reevaluar la relación con su madre, que siempre la ha menospreciado por su color de piel, con sus familiares cercanos, claramente racistas y finalmente con su pareja de Nueva York, que viaja a Puerto Rico para recuperarla. Esto la obligan a enfrentarse consigo misma y a descubrir que no sabe quién es ella, y más, qué quién quiera que sea, no se acepta. Tras la muerte de su padre, Angélica tiene que decidir si regresa al confort de su vida anterior, insatisfecha, pero segura, o se aventura al camino de redescubrirse como mujer independiente, moderna, fuerte, mulata y puertoriqueña, en este mundo globalizado en los comienzos del siglo XXI. (Programa Ibermedia) -
Negra
Tenía por ahí siete años cuando por primera vez alguien en la calle me llamó “negra”. Volteé a ver a quién llamaban, hasta que entendí que era a mí. Ese día supe que yo era negra, y las risas de alrededor me hicieron ver que quizás no era algo bueno… ¿Esto me había pasado solo a mí, o también le había pasado a otras? “Negra” es un documental que narra la exploración de la directora en una búsqueda con otras mujeres afrodescendientes y lo que a cada una le supone habitar México en cuerpo de mujer negra. Trenza historias de 5 mujeres del sureste mexicano, exponiendo el racismo vivido, compartiendo procesos de resistencia y auto-aceptación, las estrategias construidas para trascender los estereotipos, y la celebración de su identidad. (Film's Official Website) -
Kbela
Hair is an important marker of black female identity. Many films have been made about 'nappy' hair, but this debut by Yasmin Thayná is among the best. This powerful visual essay is a form of resistance to invisibility and an audiovisual experience about being and becoming a black woman. (International Film Festival Rotterdam) -
Clementina
A journey through the songs and story of Brazilian singer Clementina de Jesus. Her most poetic sambas, the rhythmic sway of the drums and the religious chants that reveal a strong connection with the sacred world take us to the deep world of Quelé. A unique character in the history of Brazilian popular music, a granddaughter of slaves, she is considered by many as the missing link between Brazilian culture and its African roots. (Jangada Film Festivals) -
Marighella
Beginning with a breathless, Robin Hood-style train robbery and ending with a highly provocative—and not for the faint of heart—final sequence, the directing debut from journalist, musician, and actor Wagner Moura (Elite Squad; Pablo Escobar in Narcos) is a searing and energized portrait of one of Brazil’s most divisive historical figures, Afro-Brazilian poet and politician Carlos Marighella (actor/singer Seu Jorge, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou). Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife, Clara (Adriana Esteves), and son, Carlinhos, to take to the streets, authoring the highly influential Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla,becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure, and being doggedly pursued by sadistic chief inspector Lucio (Bruno Gagliasso) before an untimely death in a dramatic police ambush in 1969. (Review by Hebe Tabachnik, Seattle International Film Festival, Film's Official Website) -
Alma no olho
Alma no olho (Soul in the Eye), a short film directed and performed by Zózimo Bulbul in 1973, constitutes the inaugural gesture of black cinema in Brazil. Bulbul’s status as a pioneer for Black Brazilian cinema does not reside in historical chronology, because he was not the first Black Brazilian director: Jose Cajado Filho, Haroldo Costa, and Odilon Lopes were his predecessors in that lineage. His importance lies, rather, in the aesthetic and narrative advances accomplished by his film, which has survived its ostracism—imposed by Brazilian critics and cinema studies through an exclusionary hegemony of almost forty years—to be taken up again as a reference point by a new generation of Black Brazilian filmmakers. [...] In recent years, many analyses have been carried out in the field of black cinema studies on Alma no olho, largely devoted to its historical relevance, leaving the inventiveness of its aesthetic gesture somewhat in the background. Frequent note is made of the film’s inspirations: the script draws from Soul on Ice, the 1968 book by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver about his time in exile, and the soundtrack consists of music from the album Kulu Sé Mama, the 1965/67 collaboration by Juno Lewis and John Coltrane, to whom Bulbul dedicates the film. In Alma no olho’s eleven minutes, Bulbul performs a pantomime of the history of Black people between Africa and the diaspora, tracing a saga that begins with a state of freedom as lived on the African continent, passes through the hardships of the Atlantic slave trade, and finally ends with the breaking of all the chains of colonial domination that continued to imprison black bodies and minds in the period following the Abolition—the end of the transnational slave trade, in 1888, in Brazil. On-screen, only his black body, some objects, and a white background are present for most of the film’s duration. While the performance is under way, the character played by Bulbul faces the camera at different moments, sometimes in complicity, sometimes with irony, but always defiantly. (Source: Oliveira, Janaína. "With the Alma no Olho: Notes on Contemporary Black Cinema." Film Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 2, Winter 2020, pp. 32–38, doi: 10.1525/fq.2020.74.2.32.) -
El vuelco del cangrejo
En La Barra, un alejado pueblo del pacífico colombiano, Cerebro, líder de los nativos afrodescendientes, mantiene fuertes enfrentamientos con El Paisa, terrateniente que planea la construcción de un hotel en la playa. Daniel, un turista extraño y silencioso, queda atrapado en el sitio, esperando una lancha que pueda sacarlo del país. (Proimágenes Colombia) -
Marímbula
En Palenque de San Basilio todos hablan de regresar a la tierra de sus ancestros. Andris y Gabriel (21 y 18 años) son los primeros palenqueros que parten a África buscando las huellas de su héroe Benkos Biohó y la cámara de Diana, la directora, estará ahí para ser testigo de ese momento. Como los sueños no siempre se imponen a la realidad, en Dakar le es negada la entrada a Andris y a todo el equipo de filmación: Diana y Gabriel quedan solos en Senegal. Con su marímbula y una gran desilusión a cuestas Gabriel se dispone a descubrir qué tiene Palenque de África y qué tiene África de Palenque. El protagonista se adentra en Senegal en búsqueda de las huellas de su héroe en una travesía en la que se encuentra con personajes y situaciones que descubren una África no imaginada por él. (Proimágenes Colombia) -
Apátrida
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929. The ruling rendered more than 200,000 people stateless, without nationality, identity or a homeland. In this dangerous climate, a young attorney named Rosa Iris mounts a grassroots campaign, challenging electoral corruption and advocating for social justice. Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary Stateless traces the complex tributaries of history and present-day politics, as state-sanctioned racism seeps into mundane offices, living room meetings, and street protests. Filmed with a chiaroscuro effect and richly imbued with elements of magical realism, Stateless combines gritty hidden-camera footage with the legend of a young woman fleeing brutal violence to flip the narrative axis, revealing the depths of institutionalized oppression. (Film's Official Website)