Courtesy of the Afro-Europe blog comes a film titled Black Brown White – an Austrian feature film about a young Nigerian woman named Jackie, on the run across the Sahara, with her son, trying to get to Geneva, Switzerland, to reunite with the boy’s father, a Swiss Un-employee. On their journey, they meet a truck driver, who, together with his paraplegic partner, who have devised an elaborate, though illegal system of smuggling African refugees to Europe. And more drama follows…
Jackie is played by 24-year-old Ghanaian/British actress, Clare-Hope Ashitey. You’ll remember her as the pregnant black girl (Kee), and savior of humanity in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men. Black Brown White is only her 3rd film, since that 2006 movie.
The film was released on February 2011 in Austria… no word on whether it’ll travel.
The below trailer isn’t subtitled, but I think the images and intonations say plenty…...
Jackie is played by 24-year-old Ghanaian/British actress, Clare-Hope Ashitey. You’ll remember her as the pregnant black girl (Kee), and savior of humanity in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men. Black Brown White is only her 3rd film, since that 2006 movie.
The film was released on February 2011 in Austria… no word on whether it’ll travel.
The below trailer isn’t subtitled, but I think the images and intonations say plenty…...
- 3/18/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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