{"id":1570,"date":"2020-03-20T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annemisselwitz.com\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1570"},"modified":"2021-01-09T21:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T20:06:58","slug":"becoming-black","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.annemisselwitz.com\/en\/film\/becoming-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

BECOMING BLACK<\/h1>\n

Documentary | DE (2019) | 91min<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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Imagine that your parents are white but your skin colour is dark and they tell you that \u2019s pure coincidence. This is what happened to a girl in East Berlin in the 1960s. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Here the East German woman Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo and gets pregnant. But she is already married to Armin.<\/p>\n

The child is filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. Meeting her stepfather Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents and the surroundings had developed. In an intimate portrayal but also critical exploration she brings together painful and confusing childhood memories with matter-of-fact accounts that testify a culture of rejection and tight-lipped denial. Yet, the movingly warm encounters with her Togolese family develop Becoming Black also into a reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties, seen from a very personal perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Director:<\/strong> Ines Johnson-Spain<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong> Yana H\u00f6hnerbach<\/span>
\nCamera:<\/strong> Anne Misselwitz, Sebastian Winkels
\nSound:<\/strong> Ulla K\u00f6sterke<\/span>
\nProducer:<\/strong> Anahita Nazemi<\/span><\/p>\n

Production:<\/strong> Kobalt Documentary GmbH
\nWorld Sales Company:<\/strong> RUSHLAKE MEDIA GmbH<\/p>\n

World Premiere:<\/strong> IDFA Amsterdam 2019
\nPremiere Germany:<\/strong> 37th IFFF Cologne | Dortmund 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Festivals<\/h2>\n

IDFA Amsterdam<\/a> 18. – 29. November 2019
\nAFI New African Film Festival at Silver Theatre<\/a> 5. \u2013 19. M\u00e4rz
\nFestival International de films de femmes, Cr\u00e9teil<\/a> 13. \u2013 22. M\u00e4rz
\nInternationales Frauenfilm Festival K\u00f6ln\/Dortmund<\/a> 24. \u2013 29. M\u00e4rz
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Awards<\/h2>\n

Best Documentary Diaspora – AFRICA MOVIE ACADEMY AWARDs 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>

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