The black movement for civil rights cemented with songs of brotherhood. Wounding images, moving testimonies and heartfelt renditions of the songs (Wyclef Jean, The Roots...) tell the story of a just struggle.

Monday 2nd / 22:15 / Rex (*)
Thursday 5th / 18:15 / Rex
Friday 6th / 20:15 / Rex
(*)Presentation & Q&A with Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman

You could say to yourself that the black movement of the 60's was one of the four or five incontestably just causes of the 20th Century: a pure and beautiful struggle for the freedom of an oppressed culture and race. And this struggle was nurtured by one thing: its songs. Because, as Harry Belafonte declares at the beginning of the film, "You can cage the singer but not the song". The black movement consolidated itself with all those songs of brotherhood, giving strength to a group of people who refused to stoop down to the same violence to which they were subjected. Songs; because it's a story about songs and how they were sung, revisited today by contemporary artists such Anthony Hamilton & The Blind Boys of Alabama, Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean, Richie Havens, The Roots and John Legend. Following the meters of "I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table", "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" or "We Shall Overcome" we take a look at the history of a struggle. Offensive images, spectacular archive, moving testimonies (anonymous fighters as well as celebrities of the movement such as Belafonte or Loretta Scott King remember the hardship they suffered) and all those songs mould together a powerful and moving archive of the most musical revolution.

BILL GUTTENTAG & DAN STURMAN are invincible together. They have an Oscar (Twin towers) and a Sundance award (Nanking) to prove it, although Guttentag had already won another Oscar on his own for You don't have to die.