Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett at IFFR

• To sleep with anger

  Charles Burnett | 110' | USA |

• My Brother’s Wedding

  Charles Burnett | 105' | USA |
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  The Glass Shield

  • Black Rebels

  Charles Burnett | 104' | France |

  The idealist JJ starts as a rookie and first black cop in the department. There he comes across a murky affair and discovers that when…
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  Killer of Sheep

  • Black Rebels

  Charles Burnett | 83' | USA |

  An extremely sensitive, personal and political portrayal of the fate of black American working poor. In the poverty-stricken district of Watts, severa

• When It Rains

  • main programme short

  Charles Burnett | 12' | USA |

  If you’re black and have a child but no money and no home, you’re in real trouble.

• Nightjohn

  • main programme

  Charles Burnett | 96' | USA | International premiere

  Historical drama about a tight-knit slave community. Nightjohn is a nuisance who challenges existing laws at the time of the American Civil War.

• Rachel and Gerard