‘I Am Not Your Negro’ to screen in Cimatheque

CAIRO – 31 July 2017: A screening of the film ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ at the Cimatheque Alternative Film Centre in Cairo on Saturday, August 5 at 7 p.m.

In a 93-minute documentary, filmmaker Rauol Peck is trying to visually imagine the uncompleted pages by novelist and social critic James Baldwin, who died after writing only 30 pages of his book titled ‘Remember This House.’ The book was intended to reveal the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The national bestseller movie produced by Magnolia Pictures earned $7 million in the box office and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary.



Baldwin, who encountered discrimination against African-Americans, was one of the most prominent figures to document the civil rights movement in mid-twentieth-century America. His essays try to spotlight the deep entanglement of racial, sexual, stereotyping and class distinctions in Western communities


Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck director of Oscar-nominated documentary -I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck was born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a director and writer, known for ’Sometimes in April’ (2005), ‘Lumumba’ (2000) and ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ (2016). He was a member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002, president of the jury at the entrance examination of La Fémis (France's national film school) in 2009 and a member of the jury for Cannes Film Festival 2012.