On the occasion of the national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition, on 10 May 2023, a whole programme of historical commemoration and current mobilisation for the fight against discrimination is proposed in Nantes, France, from the end of April to the beginning of June. The Festival des 3 Continents is offering several screenings and meetings with its partners.
ALL MONTH OF MAY – CYCLE OF SCREENINGS
In partnership with Médiathèque Luce Courville in Nantes
Friday 5 May 14:00 The hate U give by Georges Tillman Jr
Friday 12 May 14:00 I am not your negro by Raoul Peck
Friday 26 May 14:00 Sidewalk Stories by Charles Lanes
Médiathèque Luce Courville, 1 Rue Eugène Thomas, 44300 Nantes – Free entrance.
WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 8.30PM – SCREENING AT THE CINÉMATOGRAPHE
In partnership with Le Cinématographe, Mémoire de l’Outre-Mer 44 and Vlipp
On the occasion of the national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition, screening of Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley, presented by Jérôme Baron, artistic director of the Festival des 3 Continents.
From an ambiguous premise (in a call centre, the rise of a young black telemarketer with a white voice), Boots Riley’s first film is an enraged and unabashed critique of the troubled links between capitalist society and racism.
> As a pre-programme, the second episode of the documentary series on the history of slavery in Nantes will be presented by Vlipp.
Le Cinématographe, 12bis Rue des Carmélites, 44000 Nantes – Prices: from 3€ to 5€.
THURSDAY 11 MAY AT 7.30PM – CONFERENCE AT THE ESPACE LOUIS DELGRÉS
In partnership with Mémoire de l’Outre-Mer 44
“Polarities of contemporary Afro-American cinema”, conference by Jérôme Baron
Following the screening of Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You on 10 May at the Cinématographe, Jérôme Baron will introduce the conference with a review of the film. From the 90’s, which was a key period for the integration of black filmmakers into American cinema, Spike Lee being the emblematic example, to the Oscar won by Barry Jenkins (the first awarded to a black director) for Moonlight, how the voices and expressions of African-American cinema have found themselves re-polarized between interdependent needs: to claim a heritage and the history of a minority and its struggles, to express independent and original points of view.
Espace Louis Delgrés, 89 quai de la Fosse, 44000 Nantes – Free entrance.
