Director: Manthia Diawara
Assistant Director:
Daman Diawara
Production: Jürgen Bock,
Lumiar Cité/Maumaus
Assistant Producer: Carlos Alberto Carrilho, Lumiar Cité/Maumaus
Camera: Jackson Kroopf
Sound: Desta Wondirad
Editing: Mohamed Al Mubarak
Country: Portugal
Year: 2023
Runtime: 77'
HD Video, colour, sound
Language: Arabic, English
Subtitles: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation with major funding from the Mellon Foundation, co-commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary with the support of Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation, Lisbon, and Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.

International premiere:
Sharjah Biennial,
15, 07.02. – 11.06.2023

Portuguese premiere:
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, 30.09.2023

Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom (2023) by Manthia Diawara reflects on the life and work of the North American activist Angela Davis. Diawara’s camera follows Davis as she walks through a forest of giant sequoias, works in the garden or walks her dog, while reflecting on myriad issues, including ideas of freedom, resistance, rebellion, remaking our world, political blackness, radical black thought, music, (inter)nationalism, (Global South) feminism, abolition, the industrial prison complex, generational shifts, dialectics, contradiction, Africa, sexuality, desire and also friendship. The film is neither a biography nor a fictional narrative. Instead, Diawara’s footage, which is interspersed with relevant archival material, presents itself as a poetic compendium of Davis’s critical thinking and an inspiration for new imaginaries and new relations within an emergent new world.

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