Next week, veteran filmmaker Haile Gerima will take his latest feature, Black Lions – Roman Wolves, to the U.S. for its first public screening, following a series of lively showings at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The five-part, 10-hour documentary film will screen in its entirety across several days at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia.
Decades in the making, Black Lions – Roman Wolves is a sweeping survey of Italy’s brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia, told through a complex mix of archival footage and contemporary interviews with eyewitnesses.
Black Lions – Roman Wolves is Gerima’s
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