500 Years Later

Until lions tell their story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

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Berlin (Hertie)
Wednesday February 27, 2008
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Hertie School of Governance, room 00.17

UK / 2006 / 90 min

Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African decent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom–Why?
Filmed in five continents, 500 Years Later examines the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland.
500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right – freedom.

Winner Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival Best Documentary, Black Berlin International Film Festival Best Film, Harlem International Film Festival Best International Documentary, Bridgetown Film Festival Best Documentary and Zanzibar International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize

Directed by Owen Alik Shahadah
Written by M.K. Asante Jr.

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