Next week, veteran filmmaker Haile Gerima will take his latest feature, Black Lions – Roman Wolves, to the U.S. for its first public screening, following a series of lively showings at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The five-part, 10-hour documentary film will screen in its entirety across several days at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia.
Decades in the making, Black Lions – Roman Wolves is a sweeping survey of Italy’s brutal colonial legacy in Ethiopia, told through a complex mix of archival footage and contemporary interviews with eyewitnesses.
Black Lions – Roman Wolves is Gerima’s first feature since 2008’s Teza, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize and the Best Screenplay award. Since then, many of Gerima’s early films have received renewed attention, with Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing distributing restored versions of Gerima’s Ashes And Embers (1983) and Sankofa (1993). In 2021, he was awarded the Academy Museum’s honorary Vantage Award, and following the screenings in Berlin, the festival handed Gerima its honorary Berlinale Camera award for career achievement.
Despite new attention from the industry, the Ethiopian-born filmmaker has continued to work independently, producing Black Lions through crowdfunding campaigns and his own cash.
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