FILM: Schulvorführung: BLUES IN SCHWARZ-WEISS

In the organizer's words:

An accompanying event as part of the exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War" of the NS-Dok

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School screening

BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE - FOUR BLACK GERMAN LIVES

D: John A. Kantara | Germany 1999 | German version | 37 min.

AFRO.TALK - THREE GENERATIONS IN CONVERSATION
D: Joshua & John A. Kantara | Germany 2008 | German version | 16 min.

The film title BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE comes from a poem by the Afro-German poet and activist May Ayim. She is one of the four Black Germans who talk about their lives in John Kantara's film. The others are Aminata Cissé-Schleicher from Leipzig, who grew up in the GDR, the musician, actor and producer Tyron Ricketts and the "Nestor" of the Initiative of Black Germans, Theodor Wonja Michael, who died in Cologne in 2019. He also tells John Kantara and his son Joshua about his experiences under National Socialism and with racism in the post-war period in the short documentary AFRO.TALK - DREI GENERATIONEN IM GESPRÄCH.

The films are suitable for pupils aged 12 and over.

Afterwards: Talk on the International Day against Racism
With: Katharina Oguntoye (historian & activist, Berlin)
Moderation: Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye (filmmaker, Cologne)

In cooperation with: Sonnenblumen Community Development Group e.V.; Theodor Wonja Michael Bibliothek; Afrika Film Festival Köln / FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.; Friedensbildungswerk Köln; Black History Month Köln; Kölner Frauengeschichtsverein e.V.; Volkshochschule Köln; agisra e.V. (information and advice center for migrant and refugee women in Cologne)