Uprize!
New York African Film Festival 2017
May 3 - 9, 2017
Uprize! looks at the political, social, and cultural conditions that shaped the June 1976 student uprising in South Africa, how those ideas we transformed into liberatory action, and how those actions helped shape the democratic society we live in today. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical. Preceded by: Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom (Lebert Bethune, 20m).
On the morning of June 16, 1976, students gathered to protest the use of the Afrikaans language in schools. What started out as a planned peaceful march turned into a bloody confrontation with the police. The student protests spread to other parts of South Africa, causing an economic instability that rapidly plunged the country into crisis. Uprize! looks at the political, social, and cultural conditions that shaped the uprising, how those ideas we transformed into liberatory action, and how those actions helped shape the democratic society we live in today. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical am Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Preceded by:
Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom
Lebert Bethune, Jamaica/USA, 1967, 20m
Bethune’s film portrays Malcolm X at a time when his views were evolving to include what was going on in the world at large. It features interviews filmed during Malcolm X’s trip to Europe and Africa shortly before his assassination in the United States, interspersed with scenes of African rebellion. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical and Human Rights Watch Film Festival
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