Tue, Feb. 23 @ 7:15PM

Wed, Feb. 23 @ 4:30PM

BLACK NATION

“Black Nation” is a film that takes an uncompromising look at the state of black manhood in America as seen through the prism of the streets of Detroit, past and present, and that city's controversial Church of the Black Madonna. Swedish filmmaker Mats Hjelm draws on his deep personal connection to the church and the city, to explore the racial, cultural and political ramifications of a "black male genocide" - all within the context of the decomposition of a once proud city. In a year where an African American has ascended to the most powerful office on earth, “Black Nation” offers the audience a penetrating look at what it really means to be a black man in urban America today. It also offers a hopeful vision of the future in the form of a church with a solution. By Mats Hjelm, 2009, 60mins, Sweeden/USA, documentary in English.