{"id":28671,"date":"2025-01-15T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/becoming-black\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:45:59","slug":"films-2020-becoming-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2020-becoming-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Black"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Becoming Black<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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DIRECTOR:<\/strong> Ines Johnson-Spain COUNTRY:<\/strong> Germany YEAR:<\/strong> 2019 LANGUAGE(S):<\/strong> German, French SUBTITLES:<\/strong> German RUNNING TIME:<\/strong> 91 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>Weekender 2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong>
Her parents and brother are white, but her skin colour is dark. They are told that this is pure coincidence. This is what happened to a girl in East Berlin in the 1960s. In an East German village, Sigrid falls in love with the Togolese student Lucien and becomes pregnant, but she is already married to Armin.
The child is the filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. At home she is told that everything is fine and there is nothing to discuss, but outside she is often confronted with racist hostility. In this intimate yet critical search for clues, she combines these confusing and painful childhood memories with sober reports that tell of a culture of rejection, silence and denial. And she goes to Togo to visit her family there.
BECOMING BLACK is a very personal reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties and focuses on a decidedly Afro-German perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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