schwarz 2021

Directed by Amuna Wagner

schwarz (black) offers a glimpse into conversations amongst black Germans from Nuremberg, Bavaria. The film shows intimate conversations amongst 17 protagonists between the age of 16 and 31 who speak about their preferred self-definitions, their experiences with everyday racism and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Do they feel represented and appreciated in German society? Who inspires them? What is it that makes them black, or Black? schwarz was made in the summer of 2020.