When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
2017, English. Directed by Jyoti Mistry.
A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen's function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.
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- 0h 10m
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- English
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man is streaming on DocAlliance Films in India.
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- 1 December 2017
- Country
- Austria, South Africa
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man is streaming on DocAlliance Films in India. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man?
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man (2017) was directed by Jyoti Mistry.