29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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I Am Not Your Negroplay
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck / United States, France, Belgium / 2016 / Czech Premiere / 93 min.


synopsis

Samuel L. Jackson narrates this audiovisual presentation of a never-finished manuscript by the eminent American writer and activist James Baldwin. This stirring history of the struggle of African-Americans against white supremacy is presented from the perspective of disbelieving amazement that such a thing could have ever happened and is actually still ongoing.

biography

Raoul Peck (1953) is a producer, documentary and fiction film director, writer, and former Haitian government minister. His I Am Not Your Negro was nominated for an Oscar in 2016.

more about film

director: Raoul Peck
producer: Rémi Grellety
photography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross
editing: Alexandra Strauss
music: Alexei Aigui
sound: David Gillain, Valérie Le Docte

contact

WIDE HOUSE / Anais Clanet / 9, rue Bleue / 75009 / Paris / France / +33 1 53 95 04 64 / infos@widehouse.org / www.widehouse.org

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2017
section:A Testimony on Knowledge
format:DCP
language:English
colour:Colour and B&W

Info

director:Raoul Peck
original title:I Am Not Your Negro
country:United States, France, Belgium
year:2016
running time:93 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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