I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO by Raoul Peck James Baldwin 3.0 BY-SA / CC © Allan Warren Worldwide Screening on 10th December, 2020

Participants of the Worldwide Screening: The international literature festival berlin (ilb) calls on cinemas, schools, universities, television stations, the media, cultural institutions and individuals for a worldwide screening of I Am Not Your ARGENTINA HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE IN COOPERATION WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT CHILE AND Negro by Raoul Peck on 10 December 2020, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the UN in 1948. The film illuminates the continuity of racism and documents MUSEO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y MEMORIA IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE BELARUS WATCH DOCS BELARUS HUMAN RIGHTS the resistance against it, which is also articulated in art. The worldwide screening of Raoul Peck’s FILM FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH BELARUSIAN PEN AND AMERYKANKA BOOK SERIES BELGIUM ESA ACADÉMIE DES film is also intended to emphasize our responsibility to process the history of colonization and racism in detail. 400 years after the first slaves were brought ashore in chains in Jamestown, Virginia, the BEAUX-ARTS DE TOURNAI I ESA INSTITUT SAINT-LUC DE BRUXELLES BOLIVIA PEN SANTA CRUZ IN COOPERATION WITH equal treatment of whites and People of Color is by no means established. Over nearly four centuries, SOCIEDAD CRUCEÑA DE ESCRITORES „GERMÁN COÍMBRA“ BRAZIL GOETHE-INSTITUT SÃO PAULO BULGARIA FRIEDRICH- an estimated 10-12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas, mainly by European traders. More than 250 years after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, the equal treatment of EBERT-STIFTUNG BULGARIA CANADA TOGETHER WITH THE GOETHE-INSTITUTE IN THE US AND GOETHE-INSTITUT MEXICO: whites and People of Color is by no means established – neither in the Americas nor in Europe nor in GOETHE-INSTITUT TORONTO IN COOPERATION WITH POV MAGAZINE, HOT DOCS & THE TORONTO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL other regions on the globe. CHILE HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE IN COOPERATION WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT CHILE AND MUSEO DE I Am Not Your Negro: This is an award-winning 95-minute documentary film from 2016, which was shot on the basis of the unfinished novel manuscript “Remember This House” by James Baldwin DERECHOS HUMANOS Y MEMORIA IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE GERMANY AKADEMIE SCHLOSS SOLITUDE STUTTGART I AMNESTY (1924 - 1987). In the film, Peck attempts to capture the racism of US society in a chronological INTERNATIONAL CHEMNITZ I DATHE-GYMNASIUM FRIEDRICHSHAIN-KREUZBERG I GEDENK- UND DOKUMENTATIONSSTELLE panorama from 1890 to 2014 by means of cinematic collage and the life story of three friends of Baldwin from the civil rights movement who were murdered in the 1960s: human rights lawyer FÜR DIE OPFER POLITISCHER GEWALT FRANKFURT (ODER) I HSG BOCHUM, SCHAUSPIELHAUS BOCHUM, IFAK E.V I HUMBASE Medgar Evers (+1963), Black Muslim Malcolm X (+1965) and Baptist pastor and civil rights activist / SOPHIA SADZAKOV, HUM-COLLECTIVE STUTTGART I IMPACT HUB BERLIN, THE GENDER EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE TRIBE Martin Luther King Jr. I INTELLECTURES I INTERKULTURKINO & INTERKULTURANSTALTEN WESTEND E.V. BERLIN I INSTITUT FÜR ETHNOLOGIE UND James Baldwin (*1924 in Harlem, New York City - 1987+ Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France) was one of James Baldwin (*1924 in Harlem, New York City - 1987+ Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France) was one of KULTURWISSENSCHAFT, UNIVERSITÄT BREMEN I KONRAD-ADENAUER-STIFTUNG, POLITISCHES BILDUNGSFORUM BADEN- the most important writers of the 20th century. Books like “The Fire Next Time” (1962) deal with WÜRTTEMBERG I KULTURZENTRUM KREUZ E.V. IN COOPERATION WITH FILMBÜHNE FULDA, KUZ KREUZ I LADENATELIER racism and sexuality. Raoul Peck (*1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a filmmaker and screenwriter who became internationally known through the documentary (1990) “Lumumba: La mort du Prophète” FRITZEN HAMBURG I LATEINAMERIKA-INSTITUT DER FREIEN UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN I MOABITER WANDERKINO IN COOPERATION (1992) and the feature film “Lumumba” (2001), among others.

WITH DOROTHEENSTÄDTISCHE BUCHHANDLUNG MOABIT I PEN DEUTSCHLAND I PROJECT „MINDFUL LEADERSHIP“ AND AG With the Worldwide Screening, the ilb ties in with the series of Worldwide Readings that it has „ANTI-RACISM AT THE UNIVERSITY“, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK I WERKRAUM SCHÖPFLIN LÖRRACH held since 2006 on various topics, primarily related to human rights, and with the first Worldwide Screening on 27 January 2020, which launched the presentation of “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann in I WINTERZEITKINO FULDA I ZENTRAL- UND LANDESBIBLIOTHEK BERLIN (ZLB), AMERIKA-GEDENKBIBLIOTHEK GHANA over 20 countries (see www.worldwide-reading.com). GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA GREECE DØCUMATISM IRELAND ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DUBLIN KOREA GOETHE-INSTITUT SEOUL We call for participation in the worldwide screening of I Am Not Your Negro. This can be done MAURITANIA DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ), PROJECT PDDH: PROMOTING HUMAN privately in a small circle, in a school, in a cinema or by a TV station. We hope that cinemas worldwide will have recovered from the current situation due to COVID-19 by December and can RIGHTS AND STRENGTHENING HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE MEXICO TOGETHER WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT CANADA AND THE participate in the call. GOETHE-INSTITUTE IN THE US: GOETHE-INSTITUT MEXICO NAMIBIA GOETHE-INSTITUT NAMIBIA PARAGUAY HEINRICH-BÖLL- The film I Am Not Your Negro is available in spoken language in English, French and German and STIFTUNG IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE IN COOPERATION WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT CHILE AND MUSEO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS with subtitles in English, Spanish, French and German also as DVD or BluRay in bookstores. The Y MEMORIA IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE UNITED KINGDOM GOETHE-INSTITUT LONDON URUGUAY HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG screening rights must be clarified individually with the distributor – we will be happy to provide information about the distributors. IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE IN COOPERATION WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT CHILE, MUSEO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y MEMORIA IN Institutions and persons who would like to participate with a screening on December 10, 2020 SANTIAGO DE CHILE AND GOETHE-INSTITUT URUGUAY USA MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING PLANNERS I are asked to send us the following information by November 12, 2020: organizers, venue, time, TOGETHER WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT CANADA AND GOETHE-INSTITUT MEXICO: GOETHE-INSTITUT CHICAGO I GOETHE-INSTITUT participating actors, language of the event, link to your website if applicable. The e-mail address is: [email protected]. The ilb will announce the events on the website www. HOUSTON I GOETHE-INSTITUT KANSAS CITY I GOETHE-INSTITUT NEW YORK, GERMAN FILM OFFICE NEW YORK I GOETHE- literaturfestival.com and in social media. INSTITUT SAN FRANCISCO I GOETHE-INSTITUT SEATTLE I GOETHE-INSTITUT WASHINGTON

For more information about the venues and times of the worldwide screening see www.worldwide-reading.com international literature festival berlin 21th ilb 8th – 18th September 2021