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Albertine Cinémathèque | Lumumba: Death of the Prophet (1991)

October 30 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join CES for the 2024 Albertine Cinematheque! Doors will open at 5:30 pm and the screenings will begin at 6:00 pm.

Food and drink will not be permitted inside the auditorium. Please be punctual so you can enjoy all the free snacks before the movie begins!

Trailer

Investigating revolutionary Patrice Lumumba’s brief tenure as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the machinations behind his shocking assassination, legendary Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck discovers critical flashpoints where a nation’s officially curated narratives intersect with repressed truths. At eight years old, Peck was brought by his family to the newly independent DRC, where his father worked for the United Nations as an agricultural professor and his mother served as secretary to the mayor of Kinshasa. Sifting through his childhood recollections and interviewing Belgian journalists and politicians who witnessed the country’s descent into internecine violence, Peck fashions a prismatic meditation on the elusiveness of political objectivity and the ethics of personal remembrance in chronicling the traumas of history.

The Albertine Cinematheque is cosponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, and the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and is made possible with the support of the FACE Foundation Supporting French-American Cultural Exchange in Education and the Arts, the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), and the Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain (FCFA).

 


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Date:
October 30
Time:
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Organizer

Department of Romance Studies
Phone
919-962-2062
Email
romladmin@unc.edu
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Venue

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center
301 Pittsboro St
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States
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