Thursday, February 20 • 7pm
Lumumba, la mort d’un prophète (Lumumba, Death of a Prophet)
Raoul Peck, Blu-ray, 69 min
France / Haiti / Congo (DRC), 1990 (French, English)
Paul Robeson Prize, 1993 FESPACO & PROCIREP Prize, 1992 Cinéma du réel
Inspired by a photo of Lumumba, this personal documentary, mixing biography and colonial history, witness accounts and familial archives, reflects on the role of media and memory surrounding the political assassination of the Congolese leader, thirty years after 9-year-old Peck joined in Leopoldville his family in exile from the Haitian dictatorship.
Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
https://www.velvet-film.com/en/films/lumumba-death-of-a-prophet/