20 films to understand racism and Black Consciousness
Art and culture always form important vehicles to transmit social messages and policies of an urgent nature, critically portraying the realities in which we live. And as Angela Davis, a famous militant of two North American civilians, affirmed: "A racist society is not enough not to be racist. It is necessary to be anti-racist. "
Assim, thinking or cinema inquanto an instrument of reflection and denouncement, we select 20 national and international films that should be seen by everyone!
Run!
Launched in 2017, Run! I was the first longa-metragem of the director Jordan Peele and chamou to atenção do mundo inteiro. Or horror and suspense film tells the story of Chris, a photographer who is worried because he will travel to meet the country of his love, Rose.
Once Rose and her family members are white, Chris fears that he will face some form of discrimination and his friend warns that he is not going to go. For all of us, I received them with sympathy, but their behavior announced that there was something wrong in this place.
A terrifying story a powerful metaphor About the hate and oppression that remains in the society and, even while in hiding, it does not become less lethal.
Selma: Uma Luta pela Igualdade
Directed by Ava DuVernay, the 2014 biographical drama portrays a defining moment in the history of the United States of America and of the great civilian hairs of two African-American citizens: as marches from Selma to Montgomery.
I protest, what happened in 1965, resulted in a fundamental conquest: a law that guarantees or directs a vote, because I have attached measures of discrimination and segregation no electoral registration system.
Or longa-metragem segue os passes of Martin Luther King Jr., who meets as President Lyndon B. Johnson in this respect, and depois part for Alabama, where he joins various militants such as Hosea Williams and John Lewis.
Starting from the local area, they began a path that ended in the capital of the state and was an important advance in the direction of equality and against discrimination. The film was released in commemoration of two 50 years, two protests.
Infiltrator na Klan
A dramatic comedy by famous director Spike Lee was released in 2018 and told Ron Stallworth's real story, a black homem who entered for police forces in the 70s.
At the time, the United States of America was traversed by a climate of extreme racial segregation. The bloody attacks were frequent by the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist group that persecuted, terrorized and killed African-Americans.
Taking advantage of his position in the police, Stallworth undertook an investigation and achieved something that seemed impossible: he infiltrated Klan and caught his plans. Além das mensagens historicas e sociais that transmits, or film presents us with a number of heroes that you have contributed to anti-racist struggle.
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12 Years of Escravidão
Or longa-metragem of 2013 is an epic drama of historical theory, directed by English hair Steve McQueen, who won Oscar de Melhor Filme. A narrative began in 1841 and was based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a violinist who foisequestrated and sold to be scravo.
For 12 years, the protagonist was forced to work on a cotton plantation in Nova Orleães. La, experience and assists various forms of violence and abuse present in um scravocratic system, cruel and sanguinary.
As soon as we twist the liberation of Solomon and his reunion with the family, we are led to reflate about a barbarian lived in the black community and the consequences that she deixou no world in that we live.
Preto Day
The Brazilian film of action and adventure was released in 2012, directed by Marcos Felipe, Marcial Renato and Daniel Mattos.
The national independent cinema project tells the story of a young man that needs lutar pela su liberdade depois de wrapping do not turn an object with great historical value.
Persecuted with old hair, patrão e o seu gangue, or protagonist vai realizing that this adventure seems to be related to lenda do first Brazilian escravo to get to alforria.
The Black Panthers: Vanguarda da Revolução
The document written and directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. was released in 2015 and tells the story of the Black Panther Party, one of the two most important movements for Afro-American resistance.
OR revolutionary group was formed in 1966, in California, by cities that patrol the streets to fight police brutality What a visually heavy black individuals.
By mobilizing against oppression and segregation, the Black Panthers are in the vanguard of the fight for a more egalitarian society, but are considered dangerous by the government. Either a new film or a tour, interviewing former members and exhibiting video records of the time.
A Cor Purple
Based on the homonymous epistolary work of American writer and feminist Alice Walker, or drama from 1985 was directed by Steven Spielberg.
O longa-metragem é passedado not começo do seculo XX and starring Celie, a 14-year-old girl who suffers abuse from the country and is forced to marry as a homem much more velho.
It is an exciting narrative that addresses the many difficulties that arise due to exclusion and preconceived year: racism, violence, sexism, poverty, etc. A Cor Purple It is also a history of resistance and feminine interlude that marks the world cinema.
Malcolm X
Written and directed by Arnold Perl, or 1992 film based on the biography of Malcolm X, uma das figures most notorious na luta pelos direitos civis North Americans. Creator of the Organization of the Afro-American Unity and two founders two Black Panthers, Malcom had a life full of struggles that ended tragically.
O longa-metragem gives counted of the most remarkable passages of the course, commencing the crimes of the time that pass in prison. During this period, he became Islamism and began to dedicate himself to religion.
As a time, it begins to focus on political questions related to racism and the exploration of lower classes, becoming an important agent of knowledge and social transformation.
Crossing stories
The 2011 drama was directed by Tate Taylor based on the homonymous play by Kathryn Stockett, and passed out of Mississippi during the 1970s. A plot follows the fates of Aibileen and Minny, two friends who work as domestic entrepreneurs.
Embora dedicate their lives to taking care of the homes and privileged families, the sofrem constant preconceptions and racist discrimination by two employers.
Eugenia, a young white woman who is to be a writer, began to listen to her stories and to perceive their perspective on the world, deciding to write a book from point of view.
Branco Sai, Preto Fica
The Brazilian drama film directed by Adirley Queirós was released in 2014 and was held as a setting for the peripheral areas of the city of Brasília. A narrative follows the lives of dois homens, Marquim e Sartana, vítimas de uma police beatviolent num dance.
As a result, one of them had a body of rhodes and one or another had an amputated leg, passing on to a reality of exclusion and physical handicap. Or longa-metragem, marked by social criticism, ganha contours of scientific fiction com a chegada of a third personagem, Cravalanças.
Or homem, I see the future, study or case and try to prove that everything or that it happened naquela noite became ao structural and systemic racism that crosses or country.
Faça to Coisa Certa
A 1989 drama comedy is a few major works by Spike Lee (who wrote, directed and also participated as an artist) and continues to faze a huge success, decades later.
Passada em Brooklyn, em Nova Iorque, the narrative focuses on the pizaria do bairro and illustrates as racial tensions experienced among the population. The business belongs to an Italian family that, living in a local area mostly inhabited by Afro-American citizens, exhibits a racist behavior.
Mookie, played by Lee, worked on the blackboard and needed to coexist with preconceptions. When an acesa discussion arises between them, the police appear and kill a young black man in front of everyone. Essa free police rape e excessive, theme quite em voga no moment, gives start to a wave of riots and social revolt.
Mississippi in Chamas
The suspense drama film directed by Alan Parker was released in 1988 and became a classic. A fictional narrative was based on events that occurred in 1964, not Mississippi, when three young athletes disappear and foram assassinated.
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were trying to get the truth about um fire that has happened numa igreja Afro-American from the region when sumiram. Or the film follows an investigation conducted by the police, which caused a bad feeling in the racist society and tensions with KKK.
Despite the relevance of the length, it is important to note that the story did not happen exactly as it was narrated. Embora is represented in another way, not on film, in reality, the police officers maintain a position of passivity and coexistence in the face of crimes.
Eu não sou seu black
The 2016 French and North American document was directed by Raoul Peck, based on a work by the romancist James Baldwin, and has a narration by Samuel L. Jackson.
O longa-metragem continues to life, to death and the principles defended by several friends of the author who will stand out in the militância direct human hairs, like Martin Luther King, Malcom X and Medgar Evers.
Relating events fulcrais, patterned pela resistance and black consciousness, or film provokes reflections and discussions about the world in which we live and the preconceptions that remain in our society. Eu não sou seu black is available on the platform streaming digital Netflix.
13th
The 2016 North American Documentary was directed by Ava DuVernay and distributed by Netflix, quickly reaching approval from international audiences.
This is a crucial film to understand or prison system of the country and its historical links with escravidão, segregation and oppression of two Afro-American citizens. The central theme is the 13th amendment to the constitution that allows forced labor (and escravo) for those who are serving prison sentences.
This urgent and fairly up-to-date analysis explores issues related to racism, poverty, and segregating political decisions that lead to or incarceration in mass two black cities. 13th It reveals the objectives hidden by behind dessas measures and also its consequences in the current world.
Bacurau
Um two Brazilian films plus commented two last tempos, Bacurau It is a 2019 work that combines influences from various cinematographic genres: drama, fantasy, scientific fiction, far-west, terror, among others.
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, who also escreveram or roteiro, or longa-metragem portrays the life of a small city located not sertão northeast of Brazil. As well as the absence of basic living conditions such as potential water, the inhabitants face attacks from invaders and need to unite forces to defend themselves.
A narrative about a popular revolt, or longa-metragem also a comment on a contemporary and historical reality of Brazil.Bacurau It thinks structural issues such as ethnic and class inequalities, corruption and the absence of support for the population.
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Se to Rua Beale Falasse
The 2018 romantic drama was directed by Barry Jenkins and is a film adaptation of the homonymous work by James Baldwin. Or a film passed in the 70s and the destiny of a young family after a fateful event.
Alonzo defends Mulher, Clementine, from assédio de um homem branco, gerando reações de ódio dos locais. Na sequência, ele é unjustly imprisoned, due to false accusations that I wanted to see it.
Clementine, who is pregnant, needs to face or North American prison system and fight with each other to try to prove the husband's innocence with a system marked for discrimination.
Luta for Justiça
O drama film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton in 2019 based on Walter McMillian's story, um innocent homem that was condemned ao corridor gives death.
With the help of Bryan Stevenson, a young advocate who volunteers to defend people with financial difficulties, we follow his judicial battle to prove that he is innocent. Or case of violence against a woman branca was barely supported, not a confusing testimony of a bandit.
A narrative is told from Stevenson's memoirs (together with a homonymous work), which currently continues or seu work in advocate and activist for social justice.
Django Livre
Or film of ação e faroeste released in 2012 and one of two major successes of the North American director Quentin Tarantino. Or protagonist, Django, é um I wrote thatget your freedom When a German rewards hunter owns a partnership.
When Amizade grows between you, they embark on an adventure and cross our country to rescuing django's wife, which is found scravizada by a cruel fazendeiro.
A history of vingança, heroism and courage also lead the public to think deeply about escravidão, injustice and racist violence.
Loving
Or historical drama film, made by Jeff Nichols in 2016, based on the biography of Mildred and Richard Loving.
Or casal entered the history of the United States of America when, in the 1950s, or seu love challenge as leis gives segregation that proibiam uniões inter-raciais.
Breaking this way from Virginia, a state in Moravam, they traveled to Washington to get married. I do not return, we were prisoners and ended up being expelled from their state, where I cannot return for 25 years.
Ó Country, Ó
A Brazilian music comedy of 2007 was directed by Monique Gardenberg and created from a text by the playwright Márcio Meirelles.
Passada num Cortiço located in the city of Salvador, a narrative comes to the end of the Carnival. Enraged by the festive climate, Dona Joana, a religious trustee, decides to cut off the local water. Assim, all the residents need to unite to resolve the situation.
A portrait of the Bahian way of life, or longa-metragem, addresses unconventional issues about Brazilian realities, as well as social inequalities and racial discrimination.
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